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Manulife controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 2023

    Reported banking-data privacy concerns

    Canadian media reporting cited an anonymous insider and an internal report that raised concerns about access controls and privacy protections surrounding a customer-information database. The reporting alleged that sensitive information could be viewed or shared too broadly; the full scale of any resulting customer harm was not established in the supplied material.

  2. 2017

    Suspicious-transaction reporting penalty

    Manulife Bank of Canada paid a penalty imposed by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada after the regulator found that required information about a suspicious transaction had not been filed under Canadian anti-money-laundering rules.