International Financial Crimes News
Posted by William Byrnes on April 24, 2015
| $4 billion in CFTC Fines for LIBOR and Euribor Manipulation: Deutsche Bank, Rabo, Citibank, RBS, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays, HSBC
With this Order, the CFTC has now imposed penalties of nearly $2.7 billion on six financial institutions and two interdealer brokers for LIBOR, Euribor, and other interest rate benchmark abuses. In addition, for similar misconduct relating to foreign exchange benchmarks, the CFTC recently imposed $1.4 billion on five financial institutions, for a total of over $4.1 billion in penalties in the CFTC’s enforcement program focused on ensuring the integrity of global financial benchmarks. The fine imposed on Deutsche Bank represents the largest fine in the CFTC’s history. |
| Deutsche Bank’s Pleads Guilty, Pay $2.519 billion in Penalties & Disgorgement, for Manipulating LIBOR
Together with approximately $1.744 billion in regulatory penalties and disgorgement—$800 million as a result of a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) action, $600 million as a result of a New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) action, and $344 million as a result of a U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) action—the Justice Department’s criminal penalties bring the total amount of penalties to approximately $2.519 billion.
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| FinCEN Issues Quarterly Update of SAR Stats
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued the SAR Stats quarterly update, which provides information on Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed through March 31, 2015. The updated statistics can be viewed at http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/rp/sar_by_number.html. Quarterly Update (April 2015) Depository Institutions…
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