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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific: 1,847 cases from 39 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€43.6mTotal of monetary amounts
€43.6mLargest single case: Swedbank AB (publ) (mit New York Branch)
€43.6mMedian per case with an amount

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16 Jul 2026 Swedbank AB (publ) (mit New York Branch)NYDFS: USD 50 million against Swedbank for withholding information USA, New YorkDisclosure and reporting obligations €43.6m

The NYDFS imposed a penalty of USD 50 million on Swedbank AB (publ) and its New York branch. In response to several requests by the regulator under section 37 of the New York Banking Law concerning links between its Baltic subsidiaries and the law firm Mossack Fonseca (Panama Papers) and the status of European investigations, the bank did not provide the requested information, in breach of section 125(3) of the New York Banking Law. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.

What organisations can take from it

Information requests from the regulator must be answered in full; withholding information is sanctioned in its own right.

Relevance to training and awareness

Complete and truthful disclosures to the regulator

Authority / court
New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)
Area of law
Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
Legal basis
New York Banking Law § 125(3) i. V. m. § 37; Sanktion nach Banking Law §§ 39, 44
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
10,000 or more
Liability of senior managers
According to the order, the bank has since, among other things, dismissed its then Chief Compliance Officer and its former CEO and parted ways with numerous other employees; the majority of the board has been replaced.
Published
16 Jul 2026

Original amount 50,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 16 Jul 2026.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

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