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Deutsche Bank names compliance chief and anti-financial crime officer
Deutsche Bank’s supervisory board appointed Laura Padovani as chief compliance and anti-financial crime officer.
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Chapter 4: Investigations into misconduct: What banks can do
Both JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank retained their respective Jeffrey Epstein relationships for too long. Yet, there is a case to be made for why exiting a high-risk relationship too soon can become an inverse form of recklessness.
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Chapter 3: Egregious failures: Customer due diligence and transaction monitoring
Why did JPMorgan Chase retain Jeffrey Epstein for more than a dozen years? How did the relationship persist despite glaring red flags? The “why” is straightforward; the “how” is more complicated.
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Deutsche Bank dinged $54K over IT incident reporting
Deutsche Bank was assessed a penalty of €50,000 (U.S. $54,000) by Germany’s financial supervisory authority for its alleged miscommunication of a 2023 information technology security incident.
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Chapter 2: KYC shortfalls: JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank’s onboarding of Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein’s designation as a high-risk client should have subjected him to enhanced due diligence that never appeared to occur, most notably at Deutsche Bank. Instead, Epstein was allowed to continue his misconduct despite numerous red flags.
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Chapter 1: Compliance v. complicity: The ‘underbelly’ of bank culture
Why were decisions made the way they were at the banks that serviced Jeffrey Epstein? Evidence points to a cultural tension: a tug-of-war between the allure of profit and the drag of compliance, with the former having all the pulling power.
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Case study: ‘The Banks Behind the Epstein Enterprise’
This Compliance Week case study offers a deep dive into the anti-money laundering compliance failures—and alleged complicity—of JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, the two banks that enabled the Jeffrey Epstein enterprise to flourish for decades.
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Table: SEC, CFTC off-channel communications penalties
The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission have combined to levy about $3.2 billion in penalties (so far) against firms and their affiliates in response to recordkeeping failures regarding employee use of off-channel communications for business purposes.
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Top ethics and compliance failures of 2023
A virtual currency exchange that sought to mislead regulators, banks failing after ignoring obvious risks, and a manufacturer that sold millions of its products in violation of U.S. export controls are among those that make up CW’s list of the biggest ethics and compliance fails of 2023.
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BaFin dings Deutsche Bank $180K over SARs filing delays
Deutsche Bank was assessed a penalty of €170,000 (U.S. $180,000) by Germany’s financial supervisory authority for failing to timely submit suspicious transaction reports.
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Deutsche Pfandbriefbank appoints Deutsche Bank risk chief as CEO
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG appointed Kay Wolf as its new chief executive officer. Wolf currently serves Deutsche Bank as chief risk officer for the private bank.
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Deutsche Bank unit ESG fine less about greenwashing, more about disclosures
The $19 million fine against DWS Investment Management Americas levied by the SEC wasn’t to punish greenwashing, experts said, but rather a penalty imposed for the firm not doing what it claimed related to its environmental, social, and governance investment strategy.
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Deutsche Bank unit fined $25M in ESG, AML settlements
DWS Investment Management Americas agreed to pay $25 million in penalties across separate settlements with the Securities and Exchange Commission addressing alleged misstatements in environmental, social, and governance investments and anti-money laundering violations.
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Common sanctions compliance trip points from 2023 enforcement cases
Penalties against companies including British American Tobacco, Wells Fargo, and Microsoft demonstrate the multiple ways in which businesses can run afoul of U.S. sanctions—an area receiving increased scrutiny by regulators.
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Fed fines Deutsche Bank $186M over historic sanctions, AML lapses
The Federal Reserve Board fined Deutsche Bank $186 million regarding violations of previous consent orders addressing alleged sanctions and anti-money laundering weaknesses and control failures relating to the bank’s relationship with Danske Estonia.
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JPMorgan to pay $290M to settle Jeffrey Epstein class action
JPMorgan Chase announced it reached an agreement in principle to settle claims made in a class-action lawsuit regarding the bank’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Deutsche Bank to pay $75M to settle Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking suit
Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by sexual assault victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
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Deutsche Bank appoints general counsel
Deutsche Bank announced the appointment of Friederike Rotsch as general counsel.
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‘An unexpected stress test’: European banks weathering storm of U.S. failures
Except for Credit Suisse’s demise, Europe has so far largely patted itself on the back for preventing further contagion in the banking sector following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank in the United States.
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Banking regs set 2023 stress test scenarios
Banking regulators unveiled new stress test requirements for the largest financial institutions, including a series of hypothetical global market shocks six banks will be required to face.