A window cleaner at Canary Wharf
HSBC’s shaming over Mexican drug money earlier this decade is beginning to look like a mere preface to the crisis that banks across Europe are now facing from financial crime.
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| EUROPE'S MONEY LAUNDERING PROBLEM |
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| Calls to make those in charge responsible |
| 2. Why Europe can't stop money laundering |
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| 3. Regulators find few lessons in Danske |
| 4. How privacy fears slow UK-style data sharing |
| 5. Danske wields risk axe after Estonia scandal |
Images of German police raiding Deutsche Bank’s headquarters late last year as part of an investigation related to the Panama Papers press leak on offshore tax havens reinforced a sense that this is another reason to steer well clear of European banks.
Though apparently unrelated, the raid happened just weeks after Danske Bank’s former chief executive Thomas Borgen resigned over a €200 billion money-laundering breach in its Estonian branch, for which Deutsche had acted as the main correspondent bank.
It is not just German and Scandinavian lenders.
