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Late suspicious-transaction reports lead to BaFin penalty for J.P. Morgan SE

Germany’s financial regulator BaFin imposed a €45 million penalty on J.P. Morgan SE over anti-money-laundering failures, according to the cited reporting. Late suspicious-transaction reports were a central issue.

CompletedThe LedgersSource date · 6 November 2025
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The November 2025 penalty was described as BaFin’s largest in this area. It concerned the bank’s EU-headquartered entity and failures in its reporting obligations, rather than a court finding that all the underlying transactions involved criminal money.

Based on reporting from: Euronews; Banking Dive; ACAMS.

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  1. Euronewseuronews.com
  2. Banking Divebankingdive.com
  3. ACAMSacams.org

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This account draws on the publications listed below, compiled on 15 September 2026. Later developments have not been checked.

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