Last year, nearly $5 billion in fines were paid in connection with the fight against money laundering money laundering, which is almost 50% more than in 2021.

The biggest fine for failure to combat money laundering of money in the year 2022 is 1.9 billion dollars. She was paid for in December by Danske Bank in the United States. According to Fenergo, an Irish company specializing in the digitalization of financial services, the total of these fines amount to nearly $5 billion for the year. The shortcomings of financial institutions in the fight against money laundering and the inadequacy of actions taken against suspicious transactions by their customers have been sanctioned.

In addition, nearly 55 billion dollars have been paid since the 2007 financial crisis by financial services groups for the non-compliance of their anti-terrorism measures blanchiment . Noted that some experts doubt the effectiveness of fines in the fight against blanchiment within financial services. Dennis Kelleher, head of the financial reform action group Better Markets, said sanctions were “mostly a negligible cost of doing business” compared to banks' profits, as he told the Financial Times.