Top 5 ORX News Losses: Q1 2018
- 6 April 2018
Find out which operational risk loss events have had the most impact recently in the monthly top five losses of Q1 2018 from ORX News.
Each month, the ORX News team publish a list of the five largest losses reported in the previous month. Read on for all the top fives of Q1 2018.
March 2018
1. Anbang Insurance – $11.9bn
Former Anbang Insurance chairman embezzles CNY 75.25 billion in illegally-raised funds and insurance premium income.
2. Union Bank of India – $48m
Union Bank of India allegedly defrauded of INR 3.14 billion in loan fraud scheme involving eight banks.
3. Bank of America – $42m
Bank of America fined USD 42 million over various fraudulent practices relating to its electronic trading services.
4. Bank of New York Mellon – $35m
BNY Mellon reaches settlement in concession fees valued at USD 35 million over alleged mismanagement of trust assets.
5. State Bank of India – $32.9m
State Bank of India defrauded of INR 2.15 billion in commercial loans made by consortium of banks.
February 2018
1. Punjab National Bank – $1.98bn
Punjab National Bank discovered it had been defrauded of USD 1.98bn in a letters of undertaking fraud involving bank employees and diamond businessman Nirav Modi.
2. Metlife – $510m
Metlife reinstated USD 510m of pension reserves it had previously released in the 1990s after it found it had failed to make adequate attempts to contact pensioners before releasing the reserves, leading to it missing payments for 25 years.
3. Vanquis – $239m
Provident Financial subsidiary Vanquis reached a GBP 170.8m settlement with the FCA over its failure to disclose the price of an add-on product it sold.
4. BitGrail – $204m
Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail claimed it had lost 17 million Nano coins in a cyberattack.
5. Lending Club – $125m
P2P lender LendingClub agreed to pay USD 125m to settle class action claims it misled investors about its compliance practices.
January 2018
1. US Bank – $608m
US Bank has provisioned USD 608 million for investigations by US authorities into the bank’s AML compliance programme in relation to a USD 2 billion fraudulent payday loan scheme by businessman Scott Tucker
2. Coincheck – $531.9m
Cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck lost around JPY 58 billion worth of NEM coins in a hack on its hot wallet.
3. Postal Savings Bank of China – $488.5m
Postal Savings Bank of China loses CNY 3.09 billion through embezzlement and fines relating to illegal bill trading, including the misappropriation by internal staff of wealth management funds totalling CNY 3 billion and a fine of CNY 90.5 million by the CBRC.
4. Rabobank – $372m
Rabobank announced that it provisioned EUR 310 million in Q4 2017 in anticipation of a settlement with the US DoJ over suspected violations of AML regulations.
5. Pershing Square – $193.8m
Pershing Square Holdings agreed to pay USD 193.8 million to settle two shareholder class action claims that the fund manager, in partnership with Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, engaged in insider trading during the attempted hostile takeover of Botox manufacturer Allergan in 2014.