Earlier this year, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a $390 million penalty against Capital One for “willful” anti-money-laundering (AML) failures that happened during a period between 2008-2014. For compliance operators in the space, the action was a strong signal of rigorous enforcement, and perhaps a sign of increased pressures to come.
Financial institutions, coping with a tsunami of concerning issues, must face the reality of a more coordinated tidal wave of AML regulations, which regulatory regimes worldwide plan to enforce. The risks of disciplinary actions are too great for C-level and board members to ignore, so what developments do they need to know and what steps must they take to protect their companies, and themselves, from the consequences of compliance failure?