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Deutsche Bank faces the possibility of additional enforcement in New York after compliance staff accused senior executives of blocking them from reporting suspicious activity, three attorneys told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. On May 19, The New York Times reported that U.S.-based compliance officers for the German lender drafted several suspicious activity reports, or SARs, on transfers involving legal entities linked to President Donald Trump and payments his son-in-law Jared Kushner made to Russian individuals triggered monitoring alerts in 2016 and 2017. Executives with the German lender's "private banking division" in New York overruled their concerns, according to the news outlet, which interviewed...