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From the Editor: Violations Put AML Back in the Media Spotlight
printIn the wake of Senate hearings on HSBC and New York State's $340 million settlement with Standard Chartered, the popular press is giving anti-money laundering issues a lot more attention. That's good and bad news for compliance officials. Last week, The New York Times drew together information about a number of regulatory probes of large banks, most of which we've reported on over the past several months. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal did an overview of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's advance notice of proposed rulemaking on customer due diligence that we've been writing about since the bureau released...
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