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 The London headquarters of UK bank Standard Chartered. Its US branch agreed to a settlement with NY regulators Tuesday for allegedly completing $250 billion in transactions with Iran. (AP)  

Standard Chartered settles Iranian transaction accusations

Standard Chartered has agreed a $340m (£217m) settlement with New York regulators that accused it of hiding $250bn of transactions with Iran.

The hearing that had been scheduled for Wednesday has now been adjourned. The bank’s chief executive Peter Sands has been in New York negotiating with the regulators.

The bank had admitted that some of its transactions did break US sanctions, but said that the amount totaled just $14m.

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