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FinCEN Adopts Reporting Requirement for Non-Financed Residential Real Estate Transfers

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a final rule (the Residential Real Estate Rule) requiring certain persons involved in residential real estate closings and...more

Freiberger Haber LLP

Enforcement News: SEC Charges Bank With Misleading Investors About The Strength Of Its BSA/AML Compliance Program And Its...

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The Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act, also known as the “BSA,” enacted in 1970, established requirements for record-keeping and reporting by banks and other financial institutions. The BSA is designed to, among...more

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FinCEN Proposes AML/CFT Rules for Investment Advisers

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On February 13, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding a new proposed rule that would require certain investment advisers to apply anti-money...more

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Sterling Bank’s ex-General Counsel hit with OCC Cease-and-Desist over Longstanding BSA/AML Shortcomings

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The Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) has taken action against the former General Counsel of Michigan-based Sterling Bank and Trust in the agency’s latest action against an individual...more

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FinCEN Issues Final Rule Implementing Access and Safeguard Provisions of the CTA

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The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was enacted in 2021 and became effective on Jan. 1, 2024. The CTA was passed with the aim of enhancing transparency in corporate ownership, so as to combat the proliferation of anonymous...more

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Tango Your Way to Government Compliance: The Corporate Transparency Act

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Why might a 255 foot yacht named “Tango” anchored in Mallorca make your life more complicated? Because its owner, Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, had been sanctioned by the U.S. in 2018 for “contributing to the situation...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Action Required: Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Is Here

This advisory provides a general summary of the Corporate Transparency Act and its requirements and is not intended to, and does not, provide legal, compliance or other advice to any individual or entity....more

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Beneficial Ownership Information Rules and Regulations: How It May Impact You

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On September 29, 2022, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a final rule (the “Rule”), the first of three planned rulemakings implementing the beneficial ownership information reporting rules of the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Treasury announces strategy to address financial institution de-risking

The U.S. Treasury Department recently released its “first of its kind” strategy to address financial institution de-risking. Mandated by the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, the 2023 De-Risking Strategy examines customer...more

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FinCEN Finalizes Rule Implementing beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements Under the CTA

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Regulatory Developments - FinCEN Finalizes Rule Implementing Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements Under the Corporate Transparency Act - On September 29, FinCEN issued a final rule under the CTA requiring each...more

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FinCEN Requires Wide Array of Companies To Report Beneficial Ownership Information To Strengthen Transparency of US Financial...

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On September 29, 2022, FinCEN issued a final rule requiring most corporations, limited liability companies and other entities created in or registered to do business in the United States to report information regarding their...more

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Corporate Transparency Act: FinCEN Issues Final Rule for Beneficial Ownership Reporting

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Thursday, September 29, 2022, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Final Rule regarding the beneficial ownership reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act...more

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KYC in a Digital World, How New Sanctions and AML Expectations Have Upped the Stakes and What you Need to Do About it

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“Know your customer” is a bed rock principle of anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance programs, but it’s not always easy, particularly as more sophisticated and aggressive players have taken the field in recent...more

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FinCEN Issues Report Addressing NFTs

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On February 4, 2022, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) jumped into the regulatory discussion about non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) - more with a whisper than a bang - in a report on its...more

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Treasury study expresses concern about money laundering risks associated with NFTs 

On February 4, 2022, the US Department of the Treasury (the Treasury) released the “Study of the Facilitation of Money Laundering and Terror Finance through the Trade in Works of Art” (the Report). The Report examines the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Stablecoins: some key regulatory and enforcement initiatives of US regulators

During the past few months, the US Treasury, the US banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have pursued several regulatory or enforcement initiatives...more

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OFAC Imposes New Sanctions to Thwart Ransomware

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On September 21, 2021, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) levied its first sanctions against a Russian-operated virtual currency exchange involved in ransomware payments and published an...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

2020 and Q1 2021 Developments And Annual Compliance Checklists

Summaries of recent legislative and regulatory developments with respect to: •The SEC’s Examination Priorities for 2021- •The SEC’s Focus on Digital Asset Securities- •The SEC’s New Marketing Rule... ...more

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The SEC and SARs

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The Commission periodically has filed enforcement actions against broker-dealers for failing to file SARs - suspicious activity reports - typically centered on a failure to file reports regarding microcap issuers. Those...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Recent guidance brings OFAC in line with domestic and global compliance trends

On May 2, 2019, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued guidance titled “A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments” (Guidance), providing direction regarding what OFAC considers to...more

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Review of Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Policy and Enforcement

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Executive Summary - Developments and Trends in Policy and Enforcement - US Department of the Treasury - The Office of Foreign Assets Control - Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network -...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

FinCEN, federal banking regulators push for private sector innovation in BSA/AML compliance

On December 3, 2018, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, the federal depository institutions regulators and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) (together, the...more

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U.S. Government Issues Guidance to Reassure U.S. Banks Involved in Foreign Correspondent Relationships

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury, together with other U.S. government agencies responsible for enforcing anti-money laundering (AML) and economic sanctions regulations, released guidance on August 30, 2016 in the form of a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FinCEN Proposes Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Reporting Rules for Registered Investment Advisers

On August 25, 2015, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed rules that would require registered investment advisers to adopt anti-money laundering (AML) programs and report...more

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FinCEN's Recently Proposed AML Rule: A Road Map for SEC-Registered Investment Advisers

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The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (the Proposed Rule) on September 1, 2015 that would impose anti-money laundering (AML) requirements for investment...more

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