The British bank, Standard Chartered, has reached a settlement with regulators in New York who'd accused it of hiding billions of dollars worth of illegal transactions with Iran. The regulators said the bank would pay a penalty of $340m and install a monitor in its New York branch to oversee future transactions. From New York, Mark Gregory.
英国渣打银行与纽约监管机构达成和解,此前,该机构指控渣打银行掩藏与伊朗进行的价值数十亿美元的非法交易。该监管机构称渣打银行必须支付3.4亿美元罚金,并在纽约分公司安置一名监管员来监督将来的交易活动。马克·格雷戈里报道。
The bank was accused of helping Iran launder money by deleting any reference to Iran from records of transactions. The New York financial regulator claimed up to $250bn of deals were hidden in this way. Standard Chartered, though, said the figure was just $40m. The $340m penalty is large, but not as large as some other European banks have paid in similar circumstances – Britain's HSBC had set aside $700m to settle similar claims.
该行被指控帮助伊朗洗钱,方法是删除交易记录中任何与伊朗有关的记录。纽约金融监管机构称该行以此种方式隐藏了高达2.5亿美元的交易。但渣打银行称这个数字只有4000万。3.4亿美元的罚金金额很大,但还没有欧洲其他银行在此种情况下支付的罚金多,英国的汇丰银行为解决此类指控交了7亿美元罚金。