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Swedish authorities accused Birgitte Bonnesen, Swedbank's former chief executive, of falsely denying that the lender's Baltic branches maintained lax anti-money-laundering controls even though she knew an internal report had found that billions of euros in suspicious funds had moved through them in prior years, the Financial Times reported. More Several clients may have taken advantage of NatWest's inadequate AML program to launder funds, the U.K. lender revealed in court filings cited by the Daily Telegraph. More Industry analysts told Bloomberg that the United Arab Emirates may land on the Financial Action Task Force's list of jurisdictions with deficient AML controls...