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Midweek Roundup: FCA Fines Starling Bank, Citigroup Exits AML Action, and More

The Financial Conduct Authority fined Starling Bank, a "challenger bank" in London, £29 million for disregarding the agency's warning to refrain from rapidly expanding in Britain without allocating sufficient resources towards anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More The FCA also secured an unprecedented guilty plea in a criminal case brought against the operator of a network of unlicensed cryptocurrency ATMs, CoinDesk reported. More and More The U.S. Federal Reserve lifted Citigroup and Banamex, the bank's subsidiary in Mexico, from the terms of an enforcement action they incurred more than a decade ago by breaching AML requirements, Reuters...

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