Monzo fined £21m by FCA for failings in financial crime controls

Around 34,000 high-risk clients onboarded

Linus Uhlig
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Monzo Bank has been fined over £21m by the Financial Conduct Authority for inadequacies in its anti-financial crime systems and controls between October 2018 and August 2020.

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