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New York state’s banking regulator Benjamin Lawsky said on Tuesday that Standard Chartered Bank will pay the civil penalty to the state and will strengthen oversight of overseas transactions.
Standard Chartered spokeswoman Julie Gibson said a formal agreement with details was expected shortly.
A hearing on the issue scheduled for Wednesday has been adjourned. The federal government still could take action. Federal Reserve spokeswoman Barbara Hagenbaugh said the Fed “continues to work with the other agencies on a comprehensive resolution.”
Several other non-US banks with operations in the United States have settled sanctions cases with US authorities in recent years.
Dutch bank ING Bank NV agreed in June to pay $619 million to settle charges that it secretly moved billions of dollars through the US financial system on behalf of Iranian and Cuban customers.
Standard Chartered Bank said on Monday it “strongly rejects” and “contests” the New York regulators’ portrayal of its transactions with Iranian banks.
Lawsky earlier had signed an order that required the London-based bank to answer his questions following an investigation into the practice of removing crucial identifiers in financial transactions, called wire stripping.
The state agency called the bank a rogue institution and quoted one of its executives as saying: “You (expletive) Americans. Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we’re not going to deal with Iranians.”
The bank conspired with its Iranian clients to route nearly 60,000 US dollar payments through its New York branch “after first stripping information from wire transfer messages used to identify sanctioned countries, individuals and entities,” according to the agency’s order.
The order said the transactions provided the bank with millions of dollars in fees when such trade was restricted. Lawsky said the scheme left the US financial system “vulnerable to terrorists.”
The bank’s statement said “well over 99.9 per cent” of the questioned transactions with Iran complied with all regulations and the few transactions that didn’t amounted to $14 million.
It said none of its Iranian payments was on behalf of any designated terrorist group.
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