Everything Compliance-Episode 12
Amendments to the Rules for Conducting Currency Transactions in the Republic of Kazakhstan (the Amendments) came into effect on January 1, 2025. From now on, banks will control the acquisition of foreign currency by reference...more
Government Suggests that Unusual Pleas are Just the Tip of an Iceberg - Chinese law generally prohibits its citizens from converting more than $50,000 in Chinese yuan into foreign currency in a year. On Monday, two men...more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is not known for its aggressive enforcement record. But that may be changing. FINRA recently fined BNP Paribas for $15 million for anti-money laundering deficiencies in the...more
More on yesterday’s news of a split power-generation division at GE, including why fixing the ailing business is such an important task for new CEO Larry Culp and what federal criminal and civil accounting probes mean for the...more
If there is one industry that needs an ethics overhaul, it has to be the financial industry. The list of transgressions continues to grow – AML/sanctions, LIBOR, Foreign Exchange Currency Cartels and Market Manipulations,...more