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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2025
Bank of America in settlement talks with US regulators over employee cell phone use

Global Economy

Reuters
31 July, 2022, 02:05 pm
Last modified: 31 July, 2022, 02:08 pm

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Bank of America in settlement talks with US regulators over employee cell phone use

Reuters
31 July, 2022, 02:05 pm
Last modified: 31 July, 2022, 02:08 pm
A person walks past a Bank of America sign in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 19, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
A person walks past a Bank of America sign in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 19, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Bank of America said on Friday that it is engaged in settlement talks with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over staff communications on unapproved devices.

Earlier in July, the bank said it had earmarked roughly $200 million for fines it expects to come from regulatory probes into the unauthorised use of personal phones by bank staff.

The SEC has been looking into whether Wall Street banks have been adequately documenting employees' work-related communications, such as text messages and emails, during the work-from-home period of the pandemic.

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In December, the SEC and the CFTC fined JP Morgan Securities $200 million for "widespread" failures to preserve staff communications on personal mobile devices, messaging apps and emails.

Other major investment banks including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Barclays have also put aside cash to cover similar expected fines.

Regulators require banks to keep records of all business-related communications and as a result financial firms typically ban the use of personal email, texts and other social media channels for work purposes, although bankers do not always comply with those rules.

The SEC's head of enforcement has said banks' failure to fully record all staff communications has hampered its probes into other, unrelated issues.

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