This article was originally published on April 11, 2025 on Law360 and is republished here with permission. On Jan. 14, Patriot Bank, based in Stamford, Connecticut, entered into an agreement[1] with ...

The OCC’s examination of Patriot Bank highlighted several areas where the bank did not meet regulatory expectations. Key concerns included strategic and capital planning, BSA/AML risk management, ...

The Trump administration is preparing a shake-up of anti-money-laundering rules, in an effort to overhaul a system for catching illicit transactions by drug traffickers, terrorists and other criminals ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Monday issued a cease-and-desist order against Bank of America for shortcomings in its sanctions programs and noncompliance with the Bank Secrecy Act.

Bank of America (BAC) has entered into a consent order with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for deficiencies in its anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance programs. The order ...

Bank of America, Corp. BAC received a cease-and-desist order on Monday from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”), addressing the deficiencies under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and ...

The FDIC has hit CBW Bank, a $90 million-assets institution in Weir, Kansas, with a $20,448,000 civil money penalty and an order of charges for inadequately monitoring transactions for signs of money ...

Sanctuary Wealth’s broker/dealer subsidiary will pay $150,000 to settle FINRA allegations that it fell short when developing and testing an anti-money-laundering (AML) program that complied with ...

TD Bank leadership called its response to anti-money laundering program lapses its “top priority” as federal regulators named their choice of a compliance monitor to oversee a top-to-bottom rebuild of ...

Bank of America (BofA) avoided a monetary penalty in agreeing to settle charges with the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) but was ordered to shore up previously ...