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Alex Daniel

Metro Bank fined £16.6m for failings over money laundering checks

Metro Bank said earlier this year that it would cut 1,000 jobs (Mike Egerton/PA) - (PA Archive)

Metro Bank has been fined £16.6 million by regulators for failings over money laundering controls from 2016 to 2020.

The issues, which continued for four years despite concerns being raised by junior staff, applied to more than 60 million transactions with a value of more than £51 billion, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

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