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Midweek Roundup: Commerzbank Warned German Officials About Wirecard, HSBC Rejects Cryptocurrency Transfers, and More

Commerzbank warned Germany's financial watchdog of suspicious activity at Wirecard in January 2020, six months before the payment processor went bankrupt amid a massive accounting fraud, the Financial Times reported. More HSBC's branch in the U.K. has barred clients from depositing funds from cryptocurrency wallets, the Times reported. More Cryptocurrency firms strongly criticized the U.S. Treasury Department's proposal to require them to collect more information on the transactions they process, the Financial Times reported. More China's central bank assessed a combined $97 million in anti-money laundering fines on 417 institutions in 2020, tripling the value of fines that it collected...

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