BNP Paribas: Two American subsidiaries of the French bank BNP Paribas will pay a fine of 15 million dollars in total to American banking regulators in order to avoid prosecution for not having respected the rules of the fight against money laundering. In a statement, FINRA, a financial industry regulator, said it had fined BNP Securities Corp and BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage. They are accused of not having put in place an effective system for detecting the risks of money laundering between February 2013 and March 2017. They had nevertheless carried out numerous transactions in very low value company securities ("penny stocks ") for hundreds of millions of dollars, without implementing an effective suspicious transaction detection program.