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The U.S. Treasury Department threatened Turkish lenders that have adopted Russia's Mir payment system with sanctions amid concerns that the Kremlin could use the platform to evade financial and trade embargos, the Financial Times reported. More U.S. lawmakers prodded Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to launch a beneficial ownership database and federal prosecutors to cease offering legal settlements to financial institutions that repeatedly violate anti-money laundering rules and sanctions, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More The Central Bank of Ireland fined Danske Bank $1.8 million in response to the lender's failure to screen hundreds of thousands of transactions for AML purposes, moneylaundering.com...