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BERNE, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Switzerland's financial marketsregulator FINMA is unlikely to look into possible wrongdoing atHSBC's Swiss private bank in the light of leakedinformation that was published this month, FINMA's head ofenforcement said on Tuesday.
The publication of details on alleged tax evasion by some ofthe bank's wealthy clients has prompted investigations byGeneva's public prosecutor and British authorities, as well as apossible U.S. probe.
But FINMA, which already faulted HSBC in 2010-2011 for itspoor internal controls and violations of money launderingguidelines, has said it was happy with the remedial actionsubsequently taken by the bank.
"In theory I can't rule out that something may come up whichprompts FINMA to look into it again. But I don't expect that tohappen," FINMA's David Wyss told a news conference.
Supervision of the financial market needs to be based oncurrent problems, and the leaked information about HSBC relatedto 2006-2007, which was "light years" away, Wyss said.
But FINMA may still face political pressure to act, since aSwiss parliamentary committee has taken the unusual step ofsaying they want to question the watchdog about the HSBC case.
A spokesman for HSBC in Switzerland said its Swiss privatebank had undergone a transformation in recent years and hadimplemented initiatives designed to prevent its banking servicesfrom being used to evade taxes or launder money.
FINMA has taken a far more public approach to sanctioningerrant bankers under Mark Branson, who took over as head of theregulator on April 1 last year, and on Tuesday it published itsfirst ever annual enforcement report, an attempt to make itsactions more visible.
The report, which contained statistics and sample cases from2014, also said FINMA would step up its actions againstindividuals who have seriously violated supervisory law.
FINMA said in October it had banned the former head of CoopBank from management jobs in the finance sector for threeyears after the retail bank was found to have manipulated itsown shares. (Reporting by Oliver Hirt, writing by Tom Miles, additionalreporting by Joshua Franklin, editing by Louise Heavens and JaneMerriman)