The past three years have not been kind to Danske Bank. In 2017, Denmark’s biggest lender found itself at the center of allegations that have since given the organization the dubious honor of being responsible for the world’s third largest money-laundering scandal. No one has yet to put a final figure on just how much dirty money flowed through the bank’s Estonian operations, but €200 billion (U.S. $227 billion) is the amount often quoted—some 50 times what the organization originally thought.

Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal...