A whopping 24% of Morgan Stanley international wealth-management accounts were labeled by the company as being high risk for ...

Internal company documents describe the bank’s weak anti-money-laundering controls and failure to complete due-diligence ...

The document itself reportedly acknowledged "weak" anti-money-laundering controls due to "longstanding issues globally" with ...

Amid its aggressive global push, lax procedures at the firm led to one-fourth of international accounts being flagged as high ...

Morgan Stanley’s (MS) wealth-management division represents close to half of the company’s total revenue and has been a crucial source of ...

Many of Morgan Stanley’s high-net-worth clients’ assets were flagged as being at high risk for money laundering. A recent investigation by the Wall Street Journal uncovered the wealth ...

Morgan Stanley's own risk team found in early 2022 that 60% of international accounts its advisors were trying to open had missing documents, overstated income and other errors, the Journal wrote.

The 2023 document showed that 24%, or 46,572, of Morgan Stanley’s international wealth-management accounts were designated by the firm as “High/High+" risk for money laundering. The firm also ...

Morgan Stanley's wealth-management division is under investigation by multiple government agencies due to its weak anti-money-laundering controls and improperly vetting international clients ...