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On May 30, 2024, following passage by the European Parliament in late April, the European Council officially adopted a set of rules that modernizes and harmonizes money laundering and terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”)...more
The Financial Action Task Force ("FATF") is the global standard-setter on anti-money laundering ("AML"), countering terrorist financing ("CFT") and counter proliferation financing. FATF's standards, also referred to as...more
Financial institutions and companies that are subject to oversight from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) need to prioritize compliance. OFAC has become increasingly active in recent years, and it is devoting...more
Recent high-profile banking and startup failures demonstrate the importance of pre-investment due diligence across the marketplace. Given the size and scope of many deals, and the resulting capital at stake, it is important...more
In July 2022, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – “CVM”) enacted Resolutions Nos. 160, 161, 162, 163 and 173, which reformulated the regulatory framework for public offerings in...more
Special purpose vehicles (SPVs) are commonly employed in cross-border aviation finance transactions, and can be a particularly useful structuring tool for both owners and financiers. In their most basic form, they offer a way...more
On June 30, 2021, FinCEN announced the first set of government-wide AML/CFT Priorities, as required by the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 ("AML Act"). Consistent with the National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and Other...more
Every day, the mainstream media and social media are filled with references to cryptocurrency. Depending on who you ask, it’s either simply the next way to spend your money, or it’s a haven for criminal activity. In this...more
The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act) serves as the starting point for financial institutions and companies looking to understand what to expect from the Biden administration with respect to anti-money...more
In recent years, importers, exporters, and their financial institutions have shifted away from traditional, document-based trade finance instruments and toward non-documentary, “open account” settlement through clean wire...more
GAFILAT (Financial Action Task Force of Latin America) published a Second Update to the Money Laundering Regional Threat Report (2017-2018) that includes: ANNEX VI: THREATS RELATED TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. ...more
The Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) just released an important report entitled Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade (the “Report”). The lengthy and detailed Report makes clear that the IWT is pernicious...more
Treasury has proposed rules that would modify provisions in the regulations of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, that implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018,...more
I. Background - Sweden’s financial supervisory authority (“SFSA”) recently fined Swedbank AB a record 4 billion Swedish kronor (approximately $386 million) for deficiencies in its anti-money laundering (“AML”) processes...more
Second Post in a Two-Post Series on Recent FATF Activity - As we just blogged, the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) issued a statement from its President on COVID-19 and measures to combat illicit financing during the...more
On March 31st the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)—the global AML/CFT standard-setting body and watchdog—announced that it has upgraded the United States for technical compliance with FATF Recommendation 10 following...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury 2020 Strategy (National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing released on February 6, 2020) describes ongoing significant AML/CFT threats. ...more
On 2/6/2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the 2020 National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing (2020 Strategy). The purpose of the 2020 Strategy is to...more
AML Scandals Seem to Inevitably Spawn Investor Lawsuits - As we recently blogged, Westpac, Australia’s second-largest retail bank, has been embroiled in a scandal arising from approximately 23 million alleged breaches of...more
The Dodd-Frank Act amended the Commodity Exchange Act (the Act) to create a new regulatory framework for swaps, and added Section 2(i) to require the application of the Dodd-Frank Act swap requirements to activities that...more
The Department of Treasury has released the final regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), which contain significant changes to the process by which the Committee on...more
Hackers who targeted airport currency exchange mainstay Travelex in a ransomware attack on New Year’s Eve have alerted British media that they possess 5 GB of sensitive customer data from the company “since gaining access to...more
On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (“NDAA 2020”), which includes numerous sanctions-related provisions. The law includes the previously introduced...more
Bank Accused of Being Asleep at the AML-CTF Switch - On November 20, 2019, AUSTRAC, Australia’s anti money-laundering (“AML”) and counter-terrorism financing (“CTF”) regulator, initiated an action in the Federal Court of...more
U.S. Developments - Telegram Submits Answer to SEC Complaint Regarding TON Blockchain Network - On November 12, Telegram Group Inc. (Telegram) submitted its answer and affirmative defenses to a complaint filed against...more