随着美国财政部因涉及中国洗钱网络的合规失败对美国银行处以历史最高罚款，分析人士认为此举可能促使西方银行加强对中国客户和跨境交易的审查。
As the US Treasury imposed historic fines on Bank of America over compliance failures involving Chinese money-laundering networks, analysts see the action as a signal that could prompt Western banks to tighten scrutiny of Chinese clients and cross-border transactions.
该罚款于周二宣布，总额超过12.1亿美元，其中包括美国财政部描述的有史以来第三大罚款以及货币监理署历史上最高的罚款。
The penalties, announced on Tuesday and totalling more than US$1.21 billion, included what the US Treasury described as its third-largest penalty on record and the largest in the history of the Office of the Comptroller of the...