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Midweek Roundup: US AML Reform Bill Clears House, Swedbank Reviews Billions of Transactions, and More

U.S. lawmakers passed legislation that would require legal entities to disclose their beneficial owners to the Treasury Department and make dozens of changes to the U.S. anti-money laundering regime, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Swedbank is reviewing allegations of widespread money laundering by having independent investigators look through 30 billion transactions at a cost of more than $100 million, moneylaundering.com reported. More U.S. officials urged their counterparts in Estonia to ensure that ongoing money-laundering cases end with convictions, Bloomberg reported. More More than 60 pension funds and other institutional investors joined roughly 170 other plaintiffs that sued Danske Bank in March...

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