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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
€50.4mTotal of monetary amounts
€50.4mLargest single case: Nationwide Building Society
€50.4mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

11 Dec 2025 Nationwide Building SocietyFCA: £44 million against Nationwide over financial crime controls United KingdomCustomer due diligence €50.4m

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) imposed £44,078,500 (after a 30% discount) because, from October 2016 to July 2021, the building society had no effective systems to keep due diligence and risk assessments for personal customers up to date, and did not identify personal accounts used for business purposes. As a result, one customer received 24 fraudulent Covid furlough payments totalling £27.3 million.

What organisations can take from it

Keep customer profiles continuously up to date – anyone who postpones known weaknesses for years ends up paying for the abuse.

Relevance to training and awareness

Identifying personal accounts used for business purposes

Authority / court
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Customer due diligence
Legal basis
FCA Principle 3; SYSC 6.1.1R und 6.3.1R
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
10,000 or more
Mitigating circumstances
30% settlement discount
Published
12 Dec 2025

Original amount 44,078,500 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 11 Dec 2025.

Sources

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

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