Barclays fined £42m for lax financial crime controls in two money laundering cases

  • Barclays PLC (LSE:BARC) has been fined £42 million by the UK City watchdog for failures in managing financial crime risk, relating to two separate multimillion-pound money laundering cases. This included Barclays Bank UK receiving a £3.1 million fine from the Financial Conduct Authority after it opened a client money account for a firm called WealthTek without adequate checks.