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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 718 cases from 32 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
€108.4mTotal of monetary amounts
€108.4mLargest single case: UBS Financial Services Inc.
€108.4mMedian per case with an amount

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3 Aug 2026 UBS Financial Services Inc.FinCEN: 125 million USD against UBS Financial Services as a repeat offender USAInternal controls €108.4m

The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) imposed 125 million USD on the broker-dealer – the highest BSA penalty against a broker-dealer to date. UBSFS admitted wilful infringements: the AML programme was inadequate, more than 50,000 foreign currency transfers totalling more than 10 billion USD were not adequately monitored and suspicious activity reports were not filed; it is already the second enforcement action after 2018.

What organisations can take from it

Monitoring gaps left unremedied after an earlier enforcement action lead, the second time round, to a multiple of the original penalty.

Authority / court
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
10,000 or more
Culpability
intentional
Repeat case
yes
Mitigating circumstances
Up to 15 million USD (remaining amount due by 31 May 2028) may be waived to the extent that UBSFS bears the costs of the independent review of its AML programme and implements its recommendations
Published
3 Aug 2026

Original amount 125,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 3 Aug 2026.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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