Print this article

Compliance Corner: Satabank, MFSA

Editorial Staff

10 December 2018

Satabank, MFSA

Former clients of Maltese bank more than a month ago. Reports say that more than 10,000 company accounts have been blocked.

A group of clients have created a website (www.victimsofsatabank.com). The site contains this message: “With the help of various advertising companies, we will let the story , a Malta-based organisation. US authorities, meanwhile, are investigating Denmark’s Danske Bank over how its Estonian bank branch was allegedly used to launder funds from the former Soviet Union. And as recently as last week, the UK government stunned practitioners by mothballing its Tier 1 Investor Visa programme because of compliance concerns. Dozens of nations such as Spain, Malta, Grenada and Singapore operate such a programme.