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SINGAPORE (Feb 2): Finma, the Swiss financial market supervisory authority, says Coutts & Co had breached money laundering regulations after failing to carry out background checks on the business dealings and transactions of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (

BANGKOK (Dec 20): Thailand on Tuesday freed from prison a Swiss man jailed for blackmail and attempted extortion in a case linked to a scandal over Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

SINGAPORE (Dec 7): Malaysia's beleaguered state investment fund 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) is set to begin repaying the US$6.5 billion ($9.2 billion) owed to Abu Dhabi’s state-owned International Petroleum Investment Company.

SINGAPORE (Dec 2): The kind that Standard Chartered Plc may have unwittingly facilitated is 86% more shameful than control lapses at DBS Group Holdings and UBS Group AG. Or so it seems from the simple arithmetic of financial penalties imposed by the Monet

SINGAPORE (Nov 22): Prosecutors say former BSI wealth planner Yeo Jiawei accumulated a net worth of some $23.9 million in just 15 months through “secret profits” after he left the bank in June 2014.

SINGAPORE (Nov 10): Yeo Jiawei, the former wealth planner at BSI, who is said to be among the individuals behind a complex web of corporate entities used to divert funds from 1Malaysia Development Bhd, made himself out to be little more than a junior empl

SINGAPORE (Nov 9): Ex-BSI banker Yeo Jiawei was privy to information swirling about Malaysia’s top officials because he was receiving news directly from Jho Low, said key prosecution witness Jose Renato Carvalho Pinto in court on Wednesday.

SINGAPORE (Nov 8): Yeo Jiawei saw a distinct “upgrade of his lifestyle” from mid-2014, after he left BSI and went to work for Low Taek Jho and Mohamed Ahmed Badawy Al-Husseiny, two of the key players in the scandal that has engulfed 1Malaysia Developm

SINGAPORE (Oct 28): Trial of former BSI banker Yeo Jiawei, connected to the 1MDB scandal, will begin next Monday on Oct 31.

(Oct 18): Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio's charitable foundation would return gifts or donations made to him or his ventures if they were found to have come from Malaysian wealth fund 1MDB, which is being investigated on money laundering allegations,