HSBC has agreed to pay a record $1.92 billion to settle a probe by U.S. authorities over money laundering accusations, Reuters reported:
HSBC Holdings Plc admitted to a breakdown of controls and apologised in a statement on Tuesday announcing it had reached a deferred-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, as first reported by Reuters last week.
“We accept responsibility for our past mistakes. We have said we are profoundly sorry for them, and we do so again. The HSBC of today is a fundamentally different organisation from the one that made those mistakes,” said Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver.
