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Swedish regulators indicated that an investigation into Swedbank's non-resident business in the Baltics has unearthed evidence of serious compliance failures, suggesting the Swedish lender could incur a heavy fine, Bloomberg reported. More Estonian authorities separately opened a criminal money-laundering investigation into Swedbank over suspicious cross-border transactions the lender handled from 2011 to 2017, Reuters reported. More Swedbank claimed that staff knowledge of anti-money laundering rules has improved following the establishment of a designated anti-financial crime unit, The Wall Street Journal reported. More Global auditor EY failed to report suspicious activity at Kaloti, a refinery in Dubai that an Anglo-French crime...