Bloomberg Next month, the euro zone will get its eighth global systemically important bank, Nordea Bank AB. Its management is now asking authorities in the bloc to consolidate anti-money laundering defenses after a spate of scandals rocked confidence in the finance industry and its regulators. Julie Galbo, chief risk officer at Nordea and a former regulator at the Danish Financial …

Bloomberg China’s banking regulator is handing out fines at a record pace, as it battles a build-up of financial risk. The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, along with its predecessor agency, has issued fines worth about $585 million since Chairman Guo Shuqing took charge of the watchdog in early 2017, compared with a total of some 1 billion yuan …

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. is facing a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into whether employees in the company’s wholesale-banking business improperly altered customer data, a person familiar with the matter said. The changes were made to meet a regulatory deadline, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier Thursday. “This particular situation involved a new process and a new required document …