This one may not even leave a mark.
A federal bank regulator is expected to censure JPMorgan Chase as early as next week over lax money-laundering monitoring, sources tell The Post.
The censure — which will come with no formal charges or any monetary fine, according to people familiar with the situation — is seen by many as a wrist-slap.
The move against the bank, run by CEO Jamie Dimon, is being made by the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve.
A separate reprimand by a money- laundering division of the Treasury Department also is being weighed, according to a report by Reuters.com, which first reported on the regulatory matter.
The reprimand by the OCC and the Fed comes on the heels of much stiffer penalties leveled against UK-based HSBC.
That bank shelled out nearly $2 billion in fines to settle a probe with regulators, including Treasury.
In addition, Standard Chartered, which tussled with New York state regulator Ben Lawsky’s Department of Financial Services over its alleged money-laundering practices, eventually paid a combined $667 million to DFS and federal regulators.
JPMorgan will not be charged with allowing any money to be laundered through its system. The safeguards are there to guard against money-laundering by nefarious sorts like terrorists and drug dealers.
The bank is slated to receive a cease-and-desist-order, but officials at the firm argue that it has already remedied any weaknesses it had in its anti-money-laundering practices.
A spokesman at the bank declined to comment.