The Baltics
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SFDR review: The next phase in sustainable finance disclosures
Financial market participants will soon face a new framework for disclosures that promises to remedy market concerns about complexity, product classification, and data availability.
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Former Swedbank CEO Birgitte Bonnesen sentenced to prison
Bonnesen provided misleading information about money laundering connections in the bank’s Estonian offices to Swedish news media.
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Nordic and Baltic countries should enhance AML supervision, IMF says
The International Monetary Fund has analysed vulnerabilities and threats stemming from money laundering and terrorist funding in eight Nordic and Baltic countries.
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Swedbank fined $3.4m over Crimea sanctions violations
The bank’s Latvian subsidiary was found making 386 transactions that violated OFAC’s sanctions.