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NYDFS settlement brings historical US regulatory scrutiny to a close

View of Sergels Torg in the city's commercial center with people walking around on a somewhat overcast day on September 19, 2026 in Stockholm, Sweden
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A major Nordic banking group has agreed to pay $33m to resolve the matter.

Concluding the US authorities’ reviews of the group’s anti-money-laundering (AML) controls and processes, SEB, a major Nordic banking group, has reached a final resolution with the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).

The resolution relates to customer due diligence and transactions monitoring processes in the group’s Baltic subsidiaries

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