Impact on the firm value of financial institutions from penalties for violating anti-money laundering and economic sanctions regulations
Impact on the firm value of financial institutions from penalties for violating anti-money laundering and economic sanctions regulations
This study examines the valuation effects of anti-money laundering (AML) enforcement actions and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) economic sanction violations on U.S. financial institutions (FIs). Using a hand-collected sample of 308 enforcement actions issued between 2000 to 2018, results show that a civil money penalty (CMP) adversely affects a bank's value in the next quarter. Neither the magnitude, nor the type of AML-OFAC violation, and neither the bank's ability to deal with an enforcement action― as proxied for by efficiency ratios and governance mechanisms―are able to moderate the adverse effect of the CMP.
Anti-money laundering (AML), Civil money penalty (CMP), Economic sanction regulations, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), financial institutions
Gowin, Kathleen
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Wang, Daphne
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Jory, Surendranath
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Houmes, Robert
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Ngo, Thanh
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Gowin, Kathleen
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Wang, Daphne
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Jory, Surendranath
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Houmes, Robert
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Ngo, Thanh
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Gowin, Kathleen, Wang, Daphne, Jory, Surendranath, Houmes, Robert and Ngo, Thanh
(2020)
Impact on the firm value of financial institutions from penalties for violating anti-money laundering and economic sanctions regulations.
Finance Research Letters, [101675].
(doi:10.1016/j.frl.2020.101675).
Abstract
This study examines the valuation effects of anti-money laundering (AML) enforcement actions and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) economic sanction violations on U.S. financial institutions (FIs). Using a hand-collected sample of 308 enforcement actions issued between 2000 to 2018, results show that a civil money penalty (CMP) adversely affects a bank's value in the next quarter. Neither the magnitude, nor the type of AML-OFAC violation, and neither the bank's ability to deal with an enforcement action― as proxied for by efficiency ratios and governance mechanisms―are able to moderate the adverse effect of the CMP.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 June 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 June 2020
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Anti-money laundering (AML), Civil money penalty (CMP), Economic sanction regulations, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), financial institutions
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Local EPrints ID: 442171
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/442171
ISSN: 1544-6123
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Kathleen Gowin
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Daphne Wang
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Robert Houmes
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Thanh Ngo
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