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Weekly Roundup: FinCEN Fines Former US Bank Executive, Lawsuit Accuses Credit Suisse of Compliance Violations, and More

The U.S. Treasury Department fined a former compliance executive at U.S. Bank $450,000 for artificially capping alerts of suspicious transactions and maintaining "dangerously thin" anti-money laundering staffing levels, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More A former senior banker with Credit Suisse in India sued the Swiss lender for allegedly firing him after he flagged multiple compliance lapses to his superiors, International Investment reported. More Credit Suisse separately said it will review a nongovernmental group's claims that it still holds hundreds of dormant accounts that around 12,000 members or supporters of Germany's Nazi Party opened at the lender's predecessor in Argentina before and...

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