Bloomberg At the height of the Danske Bank A/S dirty-money scandal, the lender started offering gold bars to wealthy clients to help them keep their fortunes hidden, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. The bank’s Estonian branch, which was already wiring billions of client dollars to offshore accounts, told a select group of customers, mostly from Russia, that they could ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong regulators fined UBS Group AG 400 million Hong Kong dollars ($51 million) for overcharging global wealth management clients during almost a decade and flagged concerns about serious and systematic problems with the bank’s internal controls. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) found that UBS systematically overcharged private banking clients by manipulating the price on bond ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG told UK regulators that it’s facing persistent issues in processing high-value payments in the country, a further sign of the IT problems plaguing the lender. The German lender met with Bank of England officials two weeks ago to explain disruptions of payments going through the BoE’s high-value payments system CHAPS on several days in October, according ...