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Midweek Roundup: NAB Self-Reports AML Breaches, Australia Probes Westpac’s Officials, and More

Officials with National Australia Bank said they have disclosed breaches of anti-money laundering rules to regulators, Reuters reported. More Australian regulators are formally probing Westpac and its senior managers, and have ordered the lender to set aside an additional $340 million in capital after it systemically obscuring millions of suspicious transactions, Reuters and the Financial Times reported. More and More Sweden’s financial regulator said it has opened a joint investigation with Baltic supervisors into suspected AML failures at SEB following media reports that the Swedish lender’s Estonian affiliate processed billions of euros’ worth of dubious transactions from 2005 to 2016,...

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