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Sweden’s Financial Regulator: ‘We Can Do More’ On Bank Oversight

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Sweden’s financial regulator, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, said it needs to pick up its oversight of Swedish banks when it comes to money laundering. billion) were transferred between Danske and Swedbank spanning several years from 2007 to 2015. Was there any risk that a payment in 2007 slipped through?

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Do large and small banks need different prudential rules?

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Do prudential regulations that work well for big banks work as well for small ones? We do so using ‘receiver operating characteristic’ – or ‘ROC’ – analysis of simple threshold rules. This provides evidence that an efficient set of regulations for large banks might not be as efficient for small ones. One size fits all?

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Proposed new cyber security regulations will be a huge undertaking for financial institutions

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New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDSF) is one step closer to releasing cyber security regulations aided by the largest security hacking breach in history, against JP Morgan Chase. The attack began in 2007 and crossed 17 different countries. Systems operations and availability concerns.

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Fed To Credit Suisse: Improve Anti-Money Laundering Practices

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operations, Reuters reported. According to an order, the bank will have to put forth a plan to change the policies in 90 days, to show it's appropriately looking for illegal activity and reporting it regularly to the regulator, according to Reuters. The bank failed to freeze 35 million francs that were part of a 2007 seizure order.

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RBI Fines Yes Bank For Money Transfer Violations

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lakh under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act of 2007, according to reports. “(The) The) Reserve Bank of India vide its speaking order dates April 22, 2019, imposed a penalty of Rs 11,25,000 under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007,” Yes Bank said in a regulatory filing.

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Deutsche Money Laundering Probe Accelerated

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New York and British regulators already levied almost $700 million in fines against Deutsche in a separate $10 billion money laundering case involving the so-called “mirror trades” from Russia. That incident is still under investigation by the DoJ.

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Danske Bank Ordered To Shut Down Estonian Branch

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According to a report in Reuters , the financial regulator in Estonia caught the world off-guard with the move, demanding that Danske Bank close the branch and pay back customers within eight months. That contrasts with the bank’s plan to scale back operations in the country but still maintain a presence in Estonia.