France – Council of State upholds €50m fine for bank’s sanctions compliance failings

The French Council of State has today dismissed the appeal by Banque Postale against the fine of €50m imposed by the regulator, the ACPR.

The fine was imposed for EU sanctions compliance failings which had permitted designated persons subject to asset freezes to still transfer funds through the use of “money orders”.

This is the largest fine imposed by the French authorities.

See our earlier post in relation to the original fine.

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