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HSBC fined nearly £64m over 'serious weakness' to identify criminal activity

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HSBC has been hit with a £63.9m fine for failing to identify criminal activity. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued the fine after finding 'serious weaknesses' across HSBC's automated systems.

The systems are used to monitor hundreds of millions of transactions a month to identify criminal activity. READ MORE: The FCA found three key failings in the systems over eight years from March 2010 to March 2018.

One of these failures include scenarios used until 2014 to identify money laundering and terrorist financing as well as a 'poor' risk assessment of new scenarios after 2016.

The FCA also found failures to 'appropriately rest and update the parameters' of the bank's systems. HSBC was also found to fail to properly check the accuracy

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