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Punjab National Bank Continues Internal Investigations Into $2B Diamond Heist Scandal

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India’s Punjab National Bank (PNB) is conducting an internal investigation into an alleged $2 billion fraud, vowing to come down on anyone involved in the crime. “We They both have denied the allegations against them, and left the country before the fraud was uncovered. In February, PNB announced that it had discovered $1.8

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Report: FinCEN Files Reveal Billions In Suspicious Money Flows

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BuzzFeed said the thousands of suspicious activity reports, authored by lenders and shared with the government, offer a glimpse into global corruption enabled by banks and allowed to flourish by regulators. Since 2010, prosecution has been delayed by 18 banks for anti-money laundering, according to BuzzFeed.

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India Issues Warrants For Punjab Bank Heist Jewelers

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Non-bailable warrants have been issued for the two central figures in an alleged $2 billion scam at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB). The allegations, which go as far back as 2010, involve the firms receiving fraudulent letters of undertaking (LoUs) from the Brady House branch, which allowed them to then borrow money from overseas banks.

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FinCEN AML/CTF Priorities Part 4: Counterproliferation

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The regulations are forthcoming, but institutions now should begin the process of performing a threat-focused risk assessment which will guide them where to focus their efforts. The North Korean government has been also found to have used chemical weapons against its own nationals. Included as a Priority is Proliferation Financing.

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Deep Dive: How To Improve Existing AML/KYC Requirements

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A series of regulations was established to encourage a safer, more transparent financial services environment following the 2008 financial crisis. Failure to meet AML/KYC requirement challenges can be costly for FIs, too, with regulators issuing heavy fines for lax security practices or failure to devote sufficient resources to oversight.

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Regulations and Syllabus for Banking Diploma ( JAIBB & DAIBB)

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It is important to know thoroughly about the syllabus and regulations of any course before enrolling in that. Such limits may be attained in two to three years (2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively) after making the course contents, reading materials, library facilities and coaching facilities available to the candidates. One prize of Tk.

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Data privacy: How to keep customer data safe

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Community bank customers can be at ease knowing that community banks take the protection of their customers’ data very seriously, and community banks are regulated by some of the strictest data privacy laws of any sector,” Estep says. CCPA was modeled closely after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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