{"id":111677,"date":"2026-08-04T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111677\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:30:08","slug":"ubs-fined-125-million-under-anti-money-laundering-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111677\/","title":{"rendered":"UBS Fined $125 Million Under Anti-Money Laundering Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s ESG Updates<\/p>\n

UBS Fined $125 Million for Money Laundering Violations: U.S. regulators say the Swiss bank failed to vet high-risk customers tied to Russia and Latin America.
\nVattenfall Wins Contracts for Two Danish Offshore Wind Farms: The Swedish state-owned energy company will build projects in the North Sea and Kattegat.
\nKanadevia Inova to Build $1.5bn Waste-to-Energy Plant in Casablanca: The Swiss-Japanese-led consortium aims to cut methane emissions from Morocco\u2019s largest landfill while generating power for nearly 1 million people.
\n BHP Faces Two-Day Port Hedland Strike Despite Union Talks Progress: Workers plan to halt iron ore shipments at the world\u2019s biggest export hub as pay negotiations continue.<\/p>\n

UBS fined $125 million for anti-money laundering violations<\/p>\n

UBS was fined<\/a> $125 million by U.S. regulators on Monday for violating the Bank Secrecy Act, the largest such penalty ever against a broker-dealer. The U.S. \u200bDepartment of the Treasury\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said UBS Financial Services admitted to willfully failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and to file suspicious activity reports, marking a repeat offense after a $14.5 million fine in 2018. The bank cooperated with regulators and says it has since strengthened its compliance program.<\/p>\n

Regulators flagged failures to vet high-risk customers tied to Russia and Latin America, including a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, and inadequate monitoring of over 60,000 foreign-currency wires totaling more than $10 billion. UBS must now hire an outside consultant to review its program, with a focus on illicit finance risks tied to the U.S. Southwest border, cartels, Iran, Russia and Venezuela.<\/p>\n

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Vattenfall wins contracts to build two Danish offshore wind farms
\n\"\"An offshore wind farm. Photo Credit: Ryan Fleischer<\/a><\/p>\n

Vattenfall, the Swedish state-owned energy company, has won contracts<\/a> to build two offshore wind farms in Denmark\u2019s North Sea and Kattegat, the Danish Energy Agency said Tuesday. Both are due for completion by 2032, and together, they\u2019ll supply electricity equivalent to at least 1.8 million households: North Sea Mid at 1 gigawatt, and Hesselo at 0.8 gigawatts.<\/p>\n

The tenders used two-sided contracts for difference, guaranteeing a fixed electricity price after an earlier subsidy-free round failed. Vattenfall won North Sea Mid at 504 Danish crowns (\u20ac67.43) per MWh, and Hesselo, which drew five bids, at 542 crowns\/MWh. \u201cProjects like this demonstrate how we are scaling offshore wind while maintaining a strong focus on affordability and long-term value,\u201d said David Flood, Vattenfall\u2019s head of offshore wind.<\/p>\n

Vattenfall already runs five offshore wind farms in Denmark, generating around 6.5 TWh annually, which is enough to power roughly 1.5 million homes.<\/p>\n

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Kanadevia Inova to build $1.5bn waste-to-energy plant in Casablanca
\n\"\"An overhead view of Casablanca. Photo Credit: you deal<\/a><\/p>\n

A consortium led by global greentech leader Kanadevia Inova plans to begin construction on a $1.5 billion waste-to-energy plant<\/a> in Casablanca by year\u2019s end, with full operations expected by mid-2030. The facility will be Africa\u2019s second of its kind, cutting methane and other impacts from the Mediouna landfill, the country\u2019s largest, which has long produced odours and pollution seeping into farmland.<\/p>\n

The consortium, which includes Moroccan firm Nareva and Japan\u2019s Itochu signed a concession agreement with Casablanca\u2019s city government on Monday. Once operational, the plant will process about 1.5 million metric tons of waste yearly and generate around 115 megawatts from waste, solar and landfill gas, which is enough to supply nearly 1 million people. Construction, led by Somagec, begins once financing is secured by Q4 and should take roughly 3.5 years.<\/p>\n

However, critics argue such plants undermine recycling and emit pollutants since most rely on incineration.<\/p>\n

BHP faces two-day Port Hedland strike despite progress in union talks
\n\"\"A view of mining operations in Perth, Western Australia. Photo Credit: Iain<\/a><\/p>\n

BHP, the world\u2019s biggest listed miner and Australia\u2019s largest listed company, faces a two-day strike at its Port Hedland operations <\/a>this weekend despite progress in talks with unions on Tuesday. Workers plan a 24-hour ship-loading ban from Saturday, followed by a 24-hour stoppage at the export terminal from Sunday, likely holding up 16 iron ore shipments at the world\u2019s biggest iron ore export hub.<\/p>\n

Around 150 workers are involved as the sides negotiate a four-year enterprise agreement after seven-plus months of talks, with unions seeking enforceable wage and condition protections. BHP will present an updated proposal on August 18, the same day it reports annual results, and said \u201csignificant progress\u201d made with the Fair Work Commission\u2019s help meant the strike wasn\u2019t necessary, but unions confirmed action will proceed as planned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: The opinions expressed here by the authors are their own, not those of impakter.com \u2014\u00a0 Cover Photo Credit: Stuart Frisby<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s ESG Updates UBS Fined $125 Million for Money Laundering Violations: U.S. regulators say the Swiss bank failed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[129],"tags":[167,54595,133,732,223,704],"class_list":["post-111677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ubs","tag-finance","tag-green-investment","tag-mining","tag-renewables","tag-ubs","tag-wind-power"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117038194915043105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}