Swiss regulator keeps up pressure on UBS in 1MDB investigation

Switzerland’s financial regulator is continuing its money laundering investigation into UBS Group and three other private banks in relation to Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

Swiss regulator keeps up pressure on UBS in 1MDB investigation

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Four cases, including UBS, remain unresolved, a Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday.

The other three banks were not named.

“There will be always cases of money laundering,” said Mark Branson, chief executive of Finma, reports Bloomberg. “Our biggest fear is that Swiss institutions or foreign units of Swiss banks get involved in big money laundering cases.”

Finma fined Coutts & Co in February after the international private banking unit formerly owned by Royal Bank of Scotland Group allowed $2.4bn (£1.9bn, €2.2bn) worth of assets related to the Malaysian development fund to flow through its accounts in Switzerland

It also punished Lugano, Switzerland-based BSI SA and Falcon Private Bank of Zurich last year.

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