By 2007, John Root, HSBC’s head of Latin America compliance, appeared to be fed up.

到2007年，汇丰银行(HSBC)拉美合规部门主管约翰·卢特(John Root)似乎已经受够了。

Britain’s biggest bank was nearly five years into its 2002 purchase of Grupo Financiero Bital, a Mexican lender that HSBC had acknowledged internally was lacking a compliance department at the time of its acquisition.

这家英国最大银行于2002年收购了墨西哥银行Grupo Financiero Bital，汇丰在内部承认，在并购之时，该墨西哥银行没有合规部门。

On July 17 of that year, Mr Root told his counterpart in Mexico that his team “needs some cojones, and must act.

2007年7月17日，卢特告诉墨西哥的合规部门主管，他的团队“需要一些胆量，而且必须行动起来。

“I am quite concerned that the [anti-money laundering] committee is not functioning properly. Alarmed, even. I am close to picking up the phone to your CEO, Mr Root wrote in an email to Ramon Garcia Gibson, head of compliance for HSBC’s Mexico unit.

卢特在写给汇丰墨西哥分行合规部门主管拉曼·加西亚·吉布森(Ramon Garcia Gibson)的邮件中称：“我非常担心，（反洗钱）委员会没有正常发挥作用。这简直叫人害怕。我差点就打电话给你们的CEO了。

Such efforts by HSBC to change the unit’s culture proved insufficient.

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