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Yahoo: HSBC’s Swiss private bank cuts ties with around 1K high-risk Middle Eastern clients, mainly with $100M+ in assets, to streamline operations and reduce regulatory risk

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Aug 25, 2025

This development follows a series of compliance-related challenges for HSBC’s Swiss unit, including a significant money laundering probe and a recent $300 million scandal resurfacing in July 2025. This move aligns with the bank’s broader strategy to...

FCA’s 2025 PEP Guidance refines PEP definitions allowing case-by-case discretion on sign-off and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) duration

by AdrianaAMLP | Jul 15, 2025

It emphasises a risk-based, proportionate approach to enhanced due diligence, requiring senior management approval but allowing flexibility in signatories. Firms must promptly update PEP status and ensure clear documentation, training, and compliance oversight,...

FCA calls on firms to improve treatment of politically exposed persons (PEPs)

by AdrianaAMLP | Jul 30, 2024

The findings concluded that banks, payment firms, lenders and other financial firms need to do more to ensure MPs, public servants and their families are treated fairly. At the same time, the FCA has also launched a consultation on amendments to its PEP guidance, but...

FCA issues an update on its review of the treatment of domestic Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) by financial services firms

by AdrianaAMLP | Jun 24, 2024

The FCA explains that it had been on track to publish the findings from this review (which was launched in September 2023) in line with the end of June deadline set in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023. However, it does not consider it appropriate to publish...

FATF re-rates Georgia on Recommendation 12 in latest compliance report

by AdrianaAMLP | May 6, 2024

Notes efforts undertaken by the country to address technical compliance shortcomings identified in its 2020 Mutual Evaluation Report. Notably, the amendments introduced by Georgia in 2023 to its AML legislation have fully addressed the deficiencies previously...
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