The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau within the United States Department of the Treasury, has hit JPMorgan Chase, with a $250 million fine. The reason for the civil penalty: “The OCC found the bank’s risk management practices were deficient and it lacked a sufficient framework to avoid conflicts of… Read More >>
Regulators Discipline Citigroup Over Risk Management Defects
Citigroup Inc. has launched “significant remediation projects” to bolster its risk management controls, infrastructure, and governance as a result of two consent orders from federal banking regulators that found major shortcomings in Citi’s enterprise-wide risk management, compliance risk management, data governance, and internal controls. The Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of… Read More >>
Moody’s Settles Charges of Inadequate Internal Controls
Moody’s Investors Service Inc. will be paying $16.25 million in penalties to the SEC via two regulatory orders that resolve charges that the credit rating agency had inadequate internal controls that ultimately led to 650 incorrect residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) ratings, representing a notional value of more than $49 billion. The Moody’s case “marks the… Read More >>