As well as the mammoth fine, ZTE will have to change its board and management within 30 days and put $400 million in escrow, while a U.S.-led compliance team will be added to the company, Ross said.
The trend follows the US government's mammoth $1.9bn fine of HSBC bank, after a Senate investigation found that it had served as a channel for "drug kingpins and rogue nations".
Use of the risk intelligence database is linked to a growing wave of bank account closures and blocked transactions, as banks increasingly "de-risk" their operations to avoid mammoth US Treasury fines.
"I think Mammoth is perfectly fine the way it is".
It is a crescent-shaped 70 cm long object with a fine finish, made of mammoth tusk.
Culture Escape the rush of the city while exploring one of its finest treasures - Old Delhi's mammoth standstone and white marble Jama Masjid.
This summer Cook's fine Test form continued as he made a mammoth 294 against India at Edgbaston - the sixth highest score by an Englishman, and the best since Graham Gooch's 333 against the same opposition in 1990 - as England cruised to a 4-0 series whitewash.
That sounded fine to me, so I ordered the New Mexican-style Mammoth Burger and did some stretching to prepare.
John Walter, a leader of Advocates for Mammoth, a private organization focusing on planning, said the town did not "read the fine print" in signing a deal with the developer and mistakenly believed it was insured against the kind of problems that arose with the airport.
We spent a blissful, greedy day winding in and out of many of the area's finest, sharing just the one plate of tacos or dividing a burrito (still a mammoth meal) in each.
