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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,033 cases from 44 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- Prudential Authority (PA) der South African Reserve Bank €468,147 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Capitec Bank Limited €1.49m 30 % · 1 case
- FirstRand Bank Ltd (WesBank); Toyota Financial Services South Africa Ltd; Toyota Motor Corporation u. a. (6 Unternehmen) €1.46m 29 % · 1 case
- The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited €675,255 14 % · 1 case
- Sanlam Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Ltd €527,691 11 % · 1 case
- Absa Bank Limited €468,147 9 % · 1 case
- Tana Africa Capital Managers (Pty) Ltd €152,404 3 % · 1 case
- Ninety One Fund Managers SA (RF) (Pty) Ltd €146,313 3 % · 1 case
- African Bank Limited €32,753 1 % · 1 case
- Access Forex (Pty) Limited €8,005 0 % · 1 case
- 80 Eight South Africa (Pty) Ltd (vormals Ela Asset Management (Pty) Ltd) – 0 % · 1 case
- 1 more€0
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 | 1 | €468,147 |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
25 Apr 2025 Absa Bank LimitedPA: ZAR 10m against Absa over deficient checks on politically exposed clients €468,147
Following an inspection in 2022, the supervisor objected to inadequate customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence on foreign and domestic politically exposed clients, and to more than 8,500 monitoring alerts not handled within 48 hours. It imposed two cautions, a reprimand and financial penalties of ZAR 10m (7m for customer due diligence, 3m for breaches of Directive 5). The amount and the facts have not been confirmed against the primary source.
Politically exposed clients require documented enhanced due diligence, even where only a few files are concerned.
Enhanced due diligence on politically exposed persons
- Authority / court
- Prudential Authority (PA) der South African Reserve Bank
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Customer due diligence
- Legal basis
- Financial Intelligence Centre Act 38 of 2001, ss. 21(1), 21A; FIC Directive 5 of 2019; Regulation 24(3)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Mitigating circumstances
- The bank's cooperation and remedial action.
- Published
- 25 Apr 2025
Original amount 10,000,000 ZAR, converted at the ECB reference rate of 25 Apr 2025.
- SARB: Prudential Authority imposes administrative sanctions on Absa Bank Limited (25.04.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link