Statement on ‘FinCen Files’ reporting
September 23 2020 - 2:15AM
Statement on ‘FinCen Files’ reporting
Statement on ‘FinCen Files’ reporting
A number of media have in the past days published reports based
on ‘suspicious activity reports’, filed a number of years ago. ING
is mentioned in a number of these reports.
As a gatekeeper to the financial system, ING has an important
responsibility to help protect customers, society and the financial
system against financial economic crimes. This is a challenge the
financial industry faces globally. ING takes its responsibility
extremely seriously.
Over the past years, ING has taken many steps to enhance the
management of compliance risks and embed stronger awareness across
the whole organisation. These steps are part of the a global
programme which we have been executing since 2017 in all markets
that we are active in. The programme comprises a set of
initiatives, which include enhancing customer files (KYC) and
working on various structural improvements in compliance policies,
tooling, monitoring, governance, and knowledge and behaviour. Over
4,000 FTE are currently involved in our KYC efforts.
As part of our ongoing AML efforts ING constantly assesses
relationships with customers and screens transactions. Potentially
suspicious transactions are reviewed and where applicable reported
to the relevant authorities. Over the past years we increasingly
discontinued customer relationships. Legal requirements prevent us
from publicly disclosing further details or specifics. We are
generally not in a position to comment on individual
cases.
In some recent media reports however, ING is reported to have
altered payment instructions for a transaction in 2014 to hide the
identity of a sanctioned party. ING wants to clarify that the
mentioned sanctioned party was not a party to this payment
transaction. A reference to the sanctioned party appeared to have
been erroneously added to one of the system fields for the
transaction. After discovery of this administrative error, the
correct payment transaction was executed. This has been discussed
with relevant US authorities in 2014 and no further action has been
taken.
Fighting financial crime can only be successful if banks,
authorities, law enforcement and private and public parties join
forces, on national and international levels. Effectiveness is
improved by shared intelligence, collaboration and third-party
partnerships, which is why we strongly support initiatives to
collectively fight financial crime together, as gatekeepers of the
financial industry.
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