Westpac set to pay record $912.6M civil penalty for AML failures
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Jaclyn Jaeger2020-09-25T15:53:00
Westpac is bracing for a record AUD$1.3 billion (U.S. $912.6 million) civil penalty issued by Australia’s financial crime regulator related to a money-laundering scandal and the facilitation of child exploitation in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
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