‘FinCEN Files’ highlight bank leadership flaws, not compliance flaws
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Jaclyn Jaeger2020-09-23T19:14:00
Compliance has been taking some heat in the wake of the “FinCEN Files” reports, but it’s banks’ senior leadership that failed, not the folks filing all those SARs.
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