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The U.S. Treasury’s financial watchdog fined a record $125 million penalty Monday against UBS Financial Services Inc. for "willful" anti-money laundering violations, including failing to monitor over $10 billion in foreign currency wires and ignoring red flags on high-risk clients.

Santander could be hit with legal action after attempts to force its new TSB workforce into the office three days a week.

Barclays has highlighted “opportunities” to profit from a devastating food crisis that could leave more than 100 million people hungry.

Prosecutors in Georgia have charged four foreign nationals and five companies with operating a transnational money-laundering scheme that funneled 21.5 million Georgian lari ($8.2 million) in illicit proceeds through the country’s financial system.

For years, the Russian metal trading network “Metallokomplekt-M” operated under the guise of a legitimate industrial player.

Elizabeth Warren, a leading US senator, has called for an urgent investigation by Barclays bank into the former boss’s ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Halifax is being ditched after over 170 years on the UK’s high street.

A Major British bank has announced hundreds of jobs are set to be cut following a multi-billion pound takeover.

Two Ernst and Young employees have been sacked after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s personal banking information was allegedly breached while the pair worked for the accounting firm at the Commonwealth Bank.

Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) has recommended criminal charges be filed against Aurum NeoBank.

Italian authorities have dismantled a major underground illegal bank that moved up to 100 million euros ($116 million) annually to finance operations for domestic and international drug traffickers and organized crime syndicates, police announced Monday.

The $6.7 million fine ASB has agreed to pay for insufficiently vetting billions of dollars of transactions for money laundering is putting the spotlight on the law in New Zealand.

In Dnipro, Ukraine, businessman Vyacheslav Mishalov is increasingly associated not only with construction, banking and digital projects, but also with a shadow tobacco empire.

A new report warns that increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes, powered by artificial intelligence, are set to overwhelm financial institutions unless prevention systems keep pace.

A fugitive wanted by Costa Rican authorities in connection with a massive fraud investigation known as the Madre Patria case was caught on wiretap boasting about buying into a bank in Mexico.

Elena Levina, the wife of First Vice President Dmitry Levin, is increasingly being mentioned in the upper circles of Gazprombank, often in a negative context.

Purchase would be third major ownership shake-up for high street lender in 12 years

Oktobank has emerged as a hub for suspicious financial operations linking Uzbek authorities, Russian banks, and shadow networks.

Thousands of people are struggling to log in to their NatWest banking app, leaving some unable to pay for food.

The digital bank Starling has suffered a 25% drop in annual profits and said it would turn down government guarantees on £28m of Covid loans losses after conceding its own weak controls were to blame.

Settlement encompasses a guilty plea and penalties related to undeclared U.S. assets and accounts in Singapore.

Initially a standout in Lithuania’s cryptocurrency industry, the Bankera digital coin raised tens of millions but has since seen its value plummet.

Customers shopping at Marks and Spencer stores have been left high and dry after a contactless payment meltdown.