Episode Details

This is the financial autopsy of TD Bank — the largest Bank Secrecy Act violation in US history. Between 2014 and 2024, TD Bank intentionally excluded 92% of its transaction volume from automated monitoring while aggressively growing its US retail footprint. The result: more than $670 million in drug cartel proceeds moved through the bank, a $3 billion penalty, a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit money laundering, and the first major US bank to face an OCC asset cap on its retail operations.

We dissect the full sequence: the 2013 prior enforcement action, the “flat cost paradigm” enforced by senior management, the internal audit warnings that were ignored, the three major money laundering networks that exploited the gap, and how a paper-compliant AML program became operationally useless.

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