Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:34
‘These are two of the findings in a 340-page study from the US Senate that accuses Britain’s biggest bank of a series of compliance lapses between 2004 and 2010.
HSBC, the only British bank with a branch network in America, failed to properly staff its compliance department and wrongly designated Mexico as a “low-risk” country. The findings are a major embarrassment for HSBC, some of whose senior executives will appear before the Senate committee tomorrow to explain the failings.’
Read more: HSBC ‘Acted as Financier to Drug Gangs’
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