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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East: 1,929 cases from 40 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.
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Where?
by authority- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) €2.62m 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Hang Seng Bank Limited €8.1m 39 % · 1 case
- Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft €2.62m 13 % · 1 case
- EFG Bank AG €1.19m 6 % · 1 case
- Xinhu International Futures (Hong Kong) Co., Limited €1.06m 5 % · 1 case
- Kylin International (HK) Co., Limited €968,909 5 % · 1 case
- Indian Overseas Bank, Hong Kong Branch €925,553 5 % · 1 case
- UBS AG €883,431 4 % · 1 case
- Instinet Pacific Limited €875,254 4 % · 1 case
- China Industrial Securities International Asset Management Limited €761,367 4 % · 1 case
- China CITIC Bank International Limited €485,944 2 % · 1 case
- 8 more€2.68m
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2023 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | €2.62m |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
28 Aug 2025 Deutsche Bank AktiengesellschaftDeutsche Bank: HKD 23.8m fine in Hong Kong over fee and disclosure errors €2.62m
Deutsche Bank AG was publicly reprimanded and fined 23,800,000 HKD in Hong Kong. Clients were overcharged fees of about 5 million USD in management fees on 39 accounts, 10,988 EUR at 92 customers and 493 USD at 32 customers, because agreed discounts were not applied, floating rate debt instruments were wrongly valued and fund prices were not updated. 261 single stock and 1,590 industry research reports lacked disclosure of investment banking relationships. 40 ETFs were given too low a product risk rating. The proceedings stemmed from the bank's self-reports.
Agreed fee discounts, valuation data from external vendors and disclosures in research reports need regular reconciliation so that system errors do not persist for years.
Fee billing, valuation data and disclosure in research reports
- Authority / court
- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Organisational requirements
- Legal basis
- s. 196 SFO (Cap. 571); Code of Conduct GP 2, GP 7, paras. 2.1, 12.1, 16.5(d)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- Self-reports, root-cause analysis, remediation and stronger controls, refund of overcharged fees, breaches found by the regulator to be inadvertent and without intent, cooperation and acceptance of the findings.
- Published
- 28 Aug 2025
Original amount 23,800,000 HKD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Aug 2025.
- SFC press release 25PR132: SFC reprimands and fines Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft $23.8 million (28.08.2025) Press release of an authority
- SFC Statement of Disciplinary Action zu 25PR132 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link