In today’s top Europe, Middle East and Africa news, South Africa’s competition regulator is seeking to prosecute Facebook for abusing its dominance in the social...
The Estonian unit of Swedbank AB is a suspect in a money-laundering investigation, after a special white-collar crime investigator with Estonia’s Central Criminal Police notified...
A report by a major Swedish newspaper triggered a selloff by investors of shares in a trio of Nordic banks, puzzling analysts since the revelations...
Sweden’s oldest retail bank will face a hefty $386 million fine for a scandal that erupted last year over the bank’s poor handling of money...
The Swedbank anti-money laundering (AML) probe by the law firm Clifford Chance has uncovered 586 transactions totaling roughly $4.8 million in possible U.S. sanction violations,...
Swedbank’s new CEO says that while transparency is a goal after his predecessor misled the public about money laundering, he still has to protect clients’...
There won’t be any answers until next year regarding the ongoing investigation of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) and money laundering in the Baltics,...
Anti-money-laundering compliance controls have impacted Nordic banks’ bottom lines. The region’s largest financial institutions — Swedbank AB, Nordea Bank ABP and Danske Bank A/S— have...
Swedbank announced that it has suspended the CEO and CFO of its Estonian branch after an investigation into compliance with money-laundering rules at the bank....