BobKamman
Level 15

Speaking of $140 million in fines, how many Intuit customers also do business with USAA?  And do we have an obligation to advise our clients with USAA accounts, that the may be helping Russian oligarchs and others with money laundering?

"Federal regulators have fined USAA Federal Savings Bank, a century-old institution that mainly does business with members and veterans of the U.S. military, for failing to follow anti-money laundering laws.

The comptroller of the currency fined USAA $60 million and ordered it to immediately take steps to improve its monitoring of customers for suspicious activities. FinCEN imposed an $80 million fine, saying the bank had an ineffective anti-money-laundering program for at least five years, from 2016 to 2021, and failed to heed regulators’ warnings about the problem.

“As its customer base and revenue grew in recent years, USAA F.S.B. willfully failed to ensure that its compliance program kept pace, resulting in millions of dollars in suspicious transactions flowing through the U.S. financial system without appropriate reporting,” FinCEN’s acting director, Himamauli Das, said in a statement. The bank “received ample notice and opportunity” to fix its anti-money-laundering controls, he added, “but repeatedly failed to do so.”

USAA said on Thursday that it had not sufficiently strengthened its anti-money-laundering abilities and expertise to meet federal requirements but was cooperating with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/business/usaa-fine-money-laundering.html?searchResultPosition=1