{"id":641,"date":"2020-01-14T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T03:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/2020\/01\/14\/danske-reinforces-board-as-u-s-broadens-cash-laundering-examination\/"},"modified":"2020-01-14T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T03:23:19","slug":"danske-reinforces-board-as-u-s-broadens-cash-laundering-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/2020\/01\/14\/danske-reinforces-board-as-u-s-broadens-cash-laundering-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"Danske reinforces board as U.S. broadens cash laundering examination"},"content":{"rendered":"

To strengthen its protection, Danske, currently under examination in a variety of nations, chosen previous Dutch financing priest and also ex-ABN Amro CEO Gerrit Zalm to its board.<\/p>\n

Danske is being explored in Denmark, Estonia, France as well as Britain over 200 billion euros ($ 226 billion) in settlements discovered to have actually moved via its Estonian branch from Russia, previous Soviet states as well as in other places.<\/p>\n

The SEC is currently additionally accomplishing queries, contributing to a recurring criminal examination by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) in regard to the situation of feasible cash laundering at Danske’s Estonia branch.<\/p>\n

The worth of Denmark’s biggest financial institution has actually practically cut in half because last March, with capitalists worried by the danger of large penalties. The information concerning a brand-new examination by the SEC pressed its shares down a more 3.7 percent by 1215 GMT.<\/p>\n

Shares in Swedbank have actually likewise toppled over the previous 2 sessions after Swedish tv connected the financial institution to the Baltic cash laundering allegations.<\/p>\n

Danske will certainly likewise suggest Christian Sagild, previous head of Danish insurance policy company Topdanmark, to the board at its March 18 yearly investor conference.<\/p>\n

Choosing Zalm as well as Sagild to the board is the initial concrete action by Karsten Dybvad, that took control of as chairman in December.<\/p>\n

Dybvad, previous head of the major Danish company entrance hall team and also a previous federal government authorities, been entrusted with designating a brand-new irreversible president after Thomas Borgen surrendered in September in 2015.<\/p>\n

” We have no info concerning when the examinations carried out by DoJ as well as SEC are anticipated to be finished, neither do we understand what the end result of these will certainly be,” claimed acting CEO Jesper Nielsen.<\/p>\n

The brand-new examination came just 2 days after Estonia’s monetary regulatory authority took the unanticipated action of requiring that Danske shut its branch there as well as pay off clients’ down payments within 8 months, rescinding the loan provider’s strategy to downsize however maintain organisation in the nation.<\/p>\n

($ 1 = 0.8830 euros).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To strengthen its protection, Danske, currently under examination in a variety of nations, chosen previous Dutch financing priest and also ex-ABN Amro CEO Gerrit Zalm to its board. Danske is being explored in Denmark, Estonia, France as well as Britain over 200 billion euros ($ 226 billion) in settlements discovered to have actually moved via […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afinances.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}