Two of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) biggest sanctions in the last 12 months related to failures to address financial crime and anti-money laundering (AML) risks according to the authority’s executive director of enforcement and market oversight, Mark Steward.

Speaking at the AML & ABC Forum 2021, he also revealed that correspondent banking and trade finance operations are under scrutiny in some current investigations.

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