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American Express money laundering fine: $350m, and no asset cap

The American Express money laundering fine is $350m. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which supervises national banks, fined American Express National Bank on Thursday for failures in its anti-money laundering programme, which US banks must run under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). It also ordered the bank to fix them.

The American Express money laundering fine is $350m: regulators found its bank missed about $13bn of suspect activity over a decade, from 2014 to 2025.

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October 2026

  1. Paramount completes Warner Bros deal, funded by $41.4bn of bonds at up to 9.1%

    Paramount closed its Warner Bros. Discovery takeover and is now Skydance. It paid about $78bn in cash, funded by $47bn of equity and $41.4bn of secured bonds.

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September 2026

  1. High-yield spreads are the widest since April

    The extra yield on US high-yield bonds over Treasuries rose from 2.66 to 2.93 percentage points in four trading days.

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