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Banks Should Respond Rapidly to News of Financial Crime: US Regulator

By Valentina Pasquali

Financial institutions should plan out how they will investigate news of terrorist attacks, grand-corruption schemes and other high-profile crimes that often bear compliance ramifications, a senior U.S. official said. Identifying which compliance employees will comb through account and transactional data to determine the extent of their institutions' links to serious financial crimes ahead of time is "good practice," Koko Ives, chief of the U.S. Federal Reserve's Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering section, said at a recent industry event. "You may or may not see anything, but you should have processes in your bank for how you are going to...

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