Egregious oversight lapses at NatWest and Standard Chartered suggests boards are not earning their lavish pay
Last week’s £264m penalty and criminal conviction for NatWest for money-laundering failures still takes the prize for the most spectacular collapse we’ve seen in years in a bank’s controls department. The saga, almost unbelievably, involved black bin bags, stuffed with as much as £700,000, getting through the system.
But more mundane control failures also count, and Standard Chartered, the Asian-focused but London-listed bank, limped into view on Monday with a £46.5m fine from the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority.
