Governance: Standard Chartered to pay $340m fine


Issue 930 - 31 Aug 2012 | 1 minute read

Standard Chartered has agreed to pay a $340m fine to the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), for facilitating transactions of Iranian clients. On 6 August, DFS superintendent of financial services Benjamin Lawsky called the UK multinational banking and financial services company a “rogue institution”.

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