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Deutsche, JPMorgan Top Banks Flagged in Fraud Report: Highlights

  • About 90 financial institutions appear in the leaked documents
  • The report analyzed more than $2 trillion in transfers
Deutsche Bank AG handled about $1.3 trillion of the suspicious transactions.

Deutsche Bank AG handled about $1.3 trillion of the suspicious transactions.

Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg
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The global financial industry is under the spotlight again after a cache of leaked documents show years of transactions handled by the world’s largest banks linked to money laundering, corruption and fraud.

The report dubbed the FinCEN files, released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and based on leaked documents obtained by BuzzFeed News, said that in some cases the banks kept moving illicit funds after receiving warnings from U.S. officials. Here are some of the key facts and figures.