Matt Levine, Columnist

Shh! Credit Agricole Kept Its Sudan Business Quiet

But it did it in ALL CAPS.

October 20, 2015 at 9:46 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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This morning I said:

Today "Credit Agricole SA agreed to pay $787 million to U.S. regulators and enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department to resolve allegations the French bank violated sanctions aimed at Iran and Sudan." Superficially, this might look like another dumb e-mail case: