Major banks implicated in the FinCen leak take a beating in the stock market
Banks cleared over $2 trillion in "suspicious" transactions. How did crypto fare in comparison? The major banks who were mentioned in the recent FinCen leak were subsequently thrashed by the market today. According to the investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, over the 20-year period from 1997 to 2017, the listed financial institutions facilitated over $2 trillion worth of suspicious transactions. When this news broke out yesterday, it was a day of reckoning for many of these institutions.Stocks top-5 banks by the amount of suspicious....
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According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), five major global banks have been exposed funneling trillions of dollars in criminal funds in the recently leaked FinCEN Files. The massive leak is 2,100 documents spanning from 2000 to 2017 which shows fraudulent funds flowed almost effortlessly through JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of New York Mellon. The world’s regulators are supposed to be regulating the ‘tainted’ dollars that flow through the financial system and the United States has a number of....
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other major cryptocurrencies took a beating on Tuesday evening, amid a week that had been anticipated to be tumultuous for the larger crypto and world financial markets. After a week of sustained rallies across the majority of the virtual currency market, prices are falling and the overall market value has dropped below […]
Had it been Coinbase or Nexo, he agreed with speculation that law enforcement would have been knocking on the door the next day. Nexo co-founder Antoni Trenchev told Cointelegraph that he believes the information revealed during the recent FinCen leak vindicates the crypto industry. According to the leak, the world’s leading financial institutions cleared over $2 trillion “suspicious” transactions — and Deutsche Bank alone cleared over $1.3 trillion of that amount. Trenchev said:“The first thing I'm feeling is vindication because like everyone has been saying for years, all that Bitcoin....
FinCEN has warned U.S. banks that it is closely watching how they respond to crypto risk exposure with their AML programs. The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) director Kenneth Blanco has warned banks to think seriously about their cryptocurrency risk exposure.During the virtual 2020 ACAMS anti-money laundering Conference in Las Vegas this week, Blanco discussed the obligations of banks in implementing effective anti-money laundering (AML) policies.Current FinCEN regulations (FIN-2019-A003) state that it is the responsibility of all financial institutions to identify and....