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Standard Chartered’s compliance department is apparently pretty bad at complying. In 2012, the bank was fined $340 million for hiding transactions with sanctioned Iran. As part of the settlement, Standard Chartered bank (SCB) was required to “remediate anti-money-laundering compliance problems,” Dealbook’s Ben Protess and Chad Bray report, and hire an outside monitor to judge whether the problems were in fact remediated.