Swedbank AB has been issued a record 4 billion Swedish Krona (U.S. $390 million) administrative fine for what Sweden’s financial watchdog called “serious deficiencies in its management of the risk of money laundering in its Baltic operations.”
That conclusion was drawn from parallel investigations conducted by Swedish Finansinspektionen (FI) and Estonian Finantsinspektsioon into parent company Swedbank AB and its subsidiary bank Swedbank AS in Estonia with regard to both banks’ anti-money laundering (AML) practices.
