Wells Fargo unit fined $7M for AML transaction monitoring failures
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Aaron Nicodemus2022-05-20T18:26:00
For the second time in five years, a subsidiary of Wells Fargo has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with failing to file suspicious activity reports in a timely manner due to deficiencies in the system it used to flag transactions.
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