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What WhatsApp bank fines say about culture and regulation

US regulators are cracking down on banks that use unofficial ways to communicate with clients
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What WhatsApp bank fines say about culture and regulationImage: Reuters/Dado Ruvic

How banks communicate is central to retaining long-standing clients and attracting new ones. If banks do the job badly enough, they can even end up being fined enormous amounts and losing senior managers. 

Last September, Goldman Sachs fired its head of transaction banking over breaking communication rules, while just a month before, nine Wall Street firms paid a total of $555mn to US regulators. 

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