Finance

TD Fined Record $6.7 Million Under Canada Money-Laundering Rules

  • Bank says penalty is administrative and unrelated to US probes
  • TD has disclosed initial provision of $450 million in US cases
Toronto-Dominion Bank CEO Bharat Masrani at the company’s annual general meeting in Toronto on April 18.Photographer: Della Rollins/Bloomberg
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Toronto-Dominion Bank was fined a record C$9.19 million ($6.7 million) for five violations of Canada’s anti-money-laundering and terrorist-financing laws.

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada announced the penalty Thursday, saying it conducted a compliance examination last year and imposed the fine on April 9. Along with other violations, Toronto-Dominion failed to submit suspicious-transaction reports in cases where it was reasonable to suspect the transfers were tied to money laundering or terrorist financing, along with other violations, the agency said in a statement.