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Bank of America fined $1.21 billion over anti-money-laundering failures

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 38 76 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 14 Oct 00:16 UTC · Bank of America fined $1.2 billion over anti-money-laundering failures 14 Oct 06:10 UTC · Bank of America fined more than $1.2 billion over anti-money-laundering failures 14 Oct 12:11 UTC · Bank of America fined more than $1.2 billion over anti-money-laundering failures 14 Oct 18:47 UTC · Bank of America fined more than $1.21bn over anti-money-laundering and sanctions failures 15 Oct 00:10 UTC · Bank of America fined $1.21 billion over anti-money-laundering failures 15 Oct 06:10 UTC · Bank of America fined $1.21 billion over anti-money-laundering failures 16 Oct 06:13 UTC · Bank of America fined $1.21 billion over anti-money-laundering failures

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 1 HEADLINE

  1. 15 Oct, 00:10 UTC

    Bank of America fined $1.21 billion over anti-money-laundering failures

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • money laundering: $1.2 billion (5 from 13 Oct 21:19) → $1 billion (1 from 13 Oct 23:30)
  • fine money: $1.2 billion (3 from 13 Oct 20:24) → $1.21 billion (1 from 14 Oct 02:45)
  • apparent violations: 475 (2 from 14 Oct 01:15) → 400 (1 from 14 Oct 11:54)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.