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Midweek Roundup: HSBC Closes Hong Kong Protesters’ Account, Malta’s Pilatus Bank Allegedly Misled Regulators, and More

HSBC branches in Hong Kong have been targeted with vandalism after the bank decided to close the account of a nonprofit linked to the city's protest movement and freeze $70 million, The Wall Street Journal reported. More Maltese officials unearthed evidence that now-defunct Pilatus Bank used a "dual filing system" in which confidential records of the lender's business may have been withheld from regulators during a review of its compliance processes one year ago, the Times of Malta reported. More Suspected of ignoring intelligence reports about politically exposed persons, the former chief of the Maltese police declared that all reports...

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