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Genting Singapore's RWS handed $2.25 mil penalty for customer due diligence breaches

RWS had previously been penalised a total of $95,000 by GRA between April 2022 and March 2023 for similar lapses.

Management & Corporate Governance

Even with US$11 bil of fines, global corruption is still at a high: EY

SINGAPORE (May 7): Since 2012, regulators and law enforcement agencies around the world has imposed more than US$11 billion ($14.7 billion) in financial penalties, but the scale of bribery and corruption has shown no improvement globally, according to the

In print this week

Why the 1MDB saga could be far from over for Singapore

SINGAPORE (June 2): This past week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) imposed penalties on two more banks and said it had completed an extensive, two-year-long probed into the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

Update

UOB, Credit Suisse fined a total of $1.6 mil for 1MDB-linked transactions; former Falcon & BSI employees issued prohibition orders: Update

SINGAPORE (May 30): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is imposing a total of $1.6 million in financial penalties on Credit Suisse and United Overseas Bank (UOB), having completed its two-year review of banks involved in the transactions related to

DBS, UBS react to MAS penalties arising from 1MDB investigation

SINGAPORE (Oct 11): DBS Bank and UBS Singapore have issued their responses to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) announcement this morning which revealed that the banks have been found to have breached the MAS’s anti-money laundering (AML) co

Falcon Bank: Singapore branch shutdown regrettable, but confidence in future remains

SINGAPORE (Oct 11): Falcon Bank has issued a statement saying it is “confident about its future” after today’s earlier announcement of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) decision to withdraw the merchant bank status of Falcon Bank’s Sin

1MDB Watch

MAS shuts down Falcon Bank, imposes penalties on DBS and UBS in 1MDB crackdown

SINGAPORE (Oct 11): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is withdrawing the merchant bank status of Falcon Bank’s Singapore branch for its “serious failures in anti-money laundering (AML) controls and improper conduct” by senior management at i
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