- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Neil Hodge2023-04-12T14:55:00
The recent case of a bank heavily reliant on business coming from the group of companies that owned it raises questions about the risks such exposure causes to financial institutions, their customers, and the sector at large.
On April 4, the Bank of England’s enforcement arm, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), censured Wyelands Bank for “wide-ranging” and “significant” regulatory failings that took place between December 2016 and May 2020.
Wyelands became the first financial institution to prompt the regulator to act against it for flouting rules regarding large capital exposure limits and failing to act in a prudent manner. Other serious breaches cited in the PRA’s final notice related to capital reporting, risk and governance controls, and poor retention of WhatsApp messages.
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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank highlighted for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation some of the impediments to a quick bank sale, including failing to provide rapid access to quality financial data and lists of key employees.
Except for Credit Suisse’s demise, Europe has so far largely patted itself on the back for preventing further contagion in the banking sector following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank in the United States.
Banking regulators defended their supervisory actions and pledged to find answers as to what went wrong when discussing the factors leading to the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank before the Senate Banking Committee.
The Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency cited three banks for unsafe and unsound business practices that mirror issues similar to what spurred last year’s banking crisis, including risks posed to bank investments by higher interest rates and liquidity concerns in the event of a bank’s failure.
Proterial Cable America received a declination notice from the Department of Justice related to its voluntary self-disclosure and remediation of apparent fraud committed by its employees.
Gurbir Grewal, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, laid out general principles for “proactive compliance” to avoid making false or misleading claims about the capabilities of artificial intelligence products and services.
