Compliance Tip of the Day - Compliance Lessons from Citibank’s AML Program
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 78 - How Well Does the Money Laundering Control System Work? Spotlight on: Rethinking AI Regulation: Why Current Approaches Fall Short
All Things Investigations - FinCEN’s Recent Actions: Existential Threat for Financial Institutions in Mexico
Strengthening Compliance: Lessons From the OCC's Consent Order With Patriot Bank — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Episode 343 -- TD Bank Agrees to Pay Over $3 Billion for Systemic Violations of Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Violations
Navigating Bank-Fintech Partnerships: Avoiding Common Pitfalls — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Episode 302 -- Matt Stankiewicz on DOJ's Massive Criminal Settlement with Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao
Practical Lessons Learned Regarding the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering for Financial Institutions - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Look at the Treasury Department’s April 2023 Report on Decentralized Finance or “DeFi”
A Discussion with Nacha on Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Fraud - Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
BSA, OFAC, KYC, and CIP – What do they mean to me? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 29]
Credit Eco To Go Podcast: “You are either in front of the dragon, or behind the dragon”
The New BSA Whistleblower Law: What You Need to Know
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 172-Scott Killingsworth on Personal Liability of CCOs
On October 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), jointly with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the...more
On October 21, 2025, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs introduced S.B. 3017, titled the Streamlining Transaction Reporting and Ensuring Anti-Money Laundering Improvements for a New Era Act...more
Two recent developments signal that momentum is building in Washington to recalibrate Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) reporting to produce higher‑value intelligence with less compliance friction. First, on October 9, 2025, the...more
On October 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a Financial Trend Analysis (“FTA”), identifying $9 billion of potential Iranian shadow banking activity in...more
The Senate has introduced the Streamlining Transaction Reporting and Ensuring Anti-Money Laundering Improvements for a New Era Act, or the STREAMLINE Act, an initiative led by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and...more
On October 9, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the prudential regulators issued joint guidance clarifying regulatory expectations for suspicious activity reports...more
On October 16, the OCC announced a formal agreement with a national bank in Florida for alleged unsafe or unsound practices related to board oversight, corporate governance, strategic and capital planning, and compliance with...more
On October 16, the OCC announced enforcement actions for October, including one new formal agreement and four terminations of prior agreements. The OCC entered into a formal agreement with a national bank in September after...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has recently taken two steps in furtherance of the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda. ...more
On October 21, 2025, U.S. Senators unveiled a bill that would increase reporting thresholds for currency transaction reports (“CTRs”) and suspicious activity reports (“SARs”) under the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”)....more
On October 9, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) jointly issued updated Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the...more
The Federal Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently issued some rare, detailed guidance concerning the filing of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), impacting how financial institutions and larger casinos comply with...more
This article explains the requirements of a new anti-money laundering rule that, when effective on March 1, 2026, will require suspicious activity reporting from advisors (including attorneys) who assist clients with certain...more
On October 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) jointly with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), the Federal Deposit Insurance...more
On October 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), along with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National...more
On October 9, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), along with the banking and credit union regulators, issued guidance in the form of frequently asked questions (FAQs) addressing the regulatory...more
On October 8, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), in collaboration with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance...more
The OCC has announced actions it is taking to eliminate alleged politicized or unlawful debanking in the federal banking system in response to President Trump’s Executive Order 14331, titled Guaranteeing Fair Banking For All...more
On August 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) released an advisory (FIN-2025-A003) alongside a comprehensive Financial Trend Analysis (“FTA”), shining a spotlight on...more
At a September 17 conference, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John Hurley called for modernizing the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) to ensure financial institutions provide only “highly useful”...more
Following up and consistent with public statements earlier this summer, FinCEN has formally proposed a two year delay of the effective date of its 2024 final rule that subjects certain investment advisers to the requirements...more
The podcast begins with a brief conversation between Oonagh and Regulatory Ramblings host Ajay Shamdasani about her September 8, 2025, LinkedIn article, “Rethinking AI Regulation: Why Current Approaches Are Falling Short.” ...more
On September 8, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued two bulletins aimed at eliminating “politicized or unlawful debanking” by the banks it supervises. The OCC’s guidance is “consistent with” President...more
On September 9, FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions, regarding FinCEN’s ongoing efforts to...more
On September 5, FinCEN, in consultation with the FDIC, NCUA and the OCC, issued guidance to encourage the voluntarily cross-border sharing of information among financial institutions. ...more