Category: Regulatory Risk

Off the shelf AML policies put firms and clients at risk

Regulation, Regulatory Risk
The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) 2022/23 anti-money laundering (AML) report warns of the risks posed by common AML issues. Find out what steps you and your firm can take to comply with your obligations. The SRA carried out 177 law firm inspections and 73 desk-based reviews between April 2022 and April 2023. One in three (30%) of firms inspected were fully compliant with their AML obligations, with just over half (51%) partially compliant. But the SRA found 19% of firms to be non-compliant, resulting in corrective or enforcement action. Alongside the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT), the SRA has: submitted 24…

JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank sued by Epstein accusers in New York

Regulatory Risk
(Bloomberg) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank AG were accused of enabling the sexual abuse of Jeffrey Epstein in New York class action suits that allege the banks turned a blind eye in order to “churn profits.” The lawsuits, filed separately in a New York court, allege the banks had “knowingly benefited and received things of value for assisting, supporting, facilitating, and otherwise providing the most critical service for the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking organization.” JPMorgan was accused in the suit of “financially benefiting from participating” in the alleged sex trafficking through providing financial support from 1998 to…