You cannot send money to Cuba – not from New York, not from London and not from Madrid, Manila or Managua. We all know why: it is because the US has a beef with Cuba.
America is using its banking laws not to make its financial system safer, nor to protect its own citizens from predatory financial behaviour, but rather to advance foreign policy and national security objectives. Only in America, for instance, would citizens have to apply to the finance ministry in order to get a visa to visit Cuba.
.. So far, criminal prosecutors seem more interested in prosecuting US foreign policy than in protecting the American people from the malefactors who were responsible for vaporising trillions of dollars in household wealth and adding tens of millions to the unemployment lines. So long as those banks go unpunished, the rest of the world can be forgiven for seeing a double standard at play.