Nordea, which has had a branch in New York City for decades, said it has since fortified those efforts, while its former processes, policies and controls involved a shuttered brank in Denmark and Nordea's former operations in the Baltics.
According to the official, Nordea neglected money laundering control measures and did not investigate the activities of its customers carefully enough.
Nordea Bank has agreed with the US authorities on a $35 million fine that the bank has to pay due to insufficient money laundering controls that took place between 2008 and 2019, Finnish publication Yle wrote.