The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Coutts & Company £8.75m for failing to take reasonable care to establish and maintain effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems and controls.
The failings relate to high risk customers, including Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), the FSA said, adding Coutts' failings were "serious, systemic and...
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