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Gatehouse Bank fined £1.5m for AML check failures

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FCA enforcement director Mark Steward says failures not deliberate but “there can be no excuse”.

Serious shortcoming in anti-money-laundering checks over a three-year period have led to a fine of £1,584,100 ($1,786,581) for Gatehouse Bank from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The regulator found that the bank failed to conduct sufficient checks on customers from countries with a higher risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, and