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New York State's financial regulator will take a more aggressive tack against bankers and consultants who violate anti-money laundering rules, the agency's superintendent said Monday. In a speech exhorting other state and federal regulators to be "far more aggressive and not subservient to prosecutors," New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky said that his agency would not shy away from identifying specific individuals tied to enforcement actions. "As regulators and as prosecutors, we should be focusing a lot on individual bad conduct not just on corporate wrongdoing," Lawsky said, in the speech. "We need to focus...