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@BuzzFeedNews has obtained emails by the whistleblower to HSBC’s human resources and legal departments that paint a vivid picture inside 8 Canada Square, a skyscraper across from the bank’s London headquarters. #FinCENFiles
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@BuzzFeedNews has obtained emails by the whistleblower to HSBC’s human resources and legal departments that paint a vivid picture inside 8 Canada Square, a skyscraper across from the bank’s London headquarters. #FinCENFiles
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The HSBC partying schedule was so crowded, the emails indicate, that people came up with clever names to keep it straight. There were “Mad Mondays” and “Whacky Wednesdays” throughout 2014 and 2015.
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Some members of the HSBC Financial Crimes Compliance Team became popular fixtures at the strip club Majingos, where they spent “1000s of pounds a night on a regular basis,” according to the whistleblower’s emails, which also described a describing a culture of cocaine & booze
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The whistleblower also said, “HSBC is no more safe or compliant than 2 years ago,” the whistleblower wrote in November. “There has been an appalling amount of time and money spent to achieve so little.”
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