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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 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
€39.9mTotal of monetary amounts
€39.9mLargest single case: BMO Capital Markets Corp.
€39.9mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

13 Jan 2025 BMO Capital Markets Corp.BMO Capital Markets: 40.7 million USD – inadequate supervision of bond desk USAOrganisational requirements €39.9m

From December 2020 to May 2023, staff on the agency CMO bond desk sold mortgage-backed bonds worth around 3 billion USD using misleading metrics; the broker-dealer’s supervisory procedures contained no requirements for the structuring and sale of these bonds. BMO paid 19,417,908 USD in disgorgement, 2,241,507 USD in interest and a civil penalty of 19 million USD.

What organisations can take from it

Tailor supervisory procedures to the actual products and sales practices of each desk – generic policies are not enough.

Authority / court
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Area of law
Capital markets and financial supervision · Organisational requirements
Legal basis
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 15(b)(4)(E) (Failure to supervise)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
10,000 or more

Original amount 40,659,415 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 13 Jan 2025.

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

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