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Weeks after Swedish regulators reprimanded Danske Bank for neglecting to identify its specific vulnerabilities to illicit finance, the lender has again found itself in hot water back home in Denmark over deficient anti-money laundering and sanctions-screening procedures. On Nov. 16, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority criticized the Copenhagen-based lender, Denmark's largest bank by assets, for not upgrading its due-diligence and sanctions-screening efforts despite its high exposure to financial crime and widely publicized failure to stop hundreds of billions of euros in suspicious funds from flowing through its Baltic branch. "The international nature of the bank, including its large number of...