Valda Kalnina/EPA, via Shutterstock COPENHAGEN — Regulators in Estonia have ordered Danske Bank to leave the country within eight months, arguing that the Danish bank’s $230 billion money-laundering scandal had tarnished the reputation of Estonia’s financial market. Danske Bank, which is facing investigations by the United States Department of Justice and other authorities, said it would comply with the order. Additionally, Danske, the largest lender in Denmark, said it would stop offering...

COPENHAGEN — Danske Bank, which last month acknowledged failing to prevent suspected money laundering at its Estonian branch, has now drawn the attention of United States authorities. In a statement on its website, the Danish lender said it was cooperating with the Department of Justice in a criminal investigation of flows of money out of the bank’s branch in Estonia. Denmark’s financial regulator and authorities in Estonia and Britain have already initiated investigations. “We are...