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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has issued more AML-related fines against individual bankers in the first seven months of 2018 than in the previous two years combined, according to data reviewed by ACAMS moneylaundering.com. From January to July, the OCC, which supervises more than 1,400 national banks, federal savings associations and foreign bank branches in the United States, assessed $355,000 in total fines against seven executives involved in AML compliance lapses at two lenders. The regulator fined one senior banker in 2016 and none last year. OCC fines against individuals this year range from the $5,000 assessed...