FINCast Ep. 19 - The DPRK Sanctions Program
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released the fifth phase of updates to the FFIEC Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) Examination Manual (the Manual) on August 2, 2023. While the...more
Regarding assets belonging to Senior Foreign Officials, Section 6313 of the AML Act of 2020 prohibits the concealment of the source of those assets in monetary transactions or involving Institutions of primary Money...more
La Ley ALD del 2020 (“AML Act of 2020”) incluye la creación de los “Attachés del Tesoro” (SEC. 6106, designados por el Departamento del Tesoro de los Estados Unidos) y los “Enlaces de la Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera...more
The AML Act of 2020 includes the creation of “Treasury Attachés” (SEC. 6106, appointed by the US Treasury Department) and the “Foreign Financial Intelligence Unit Liaisons” (SEC. 6108, appointed by FinCEN) to be stationed...more
Antes de la aprobación de la LEY AML del 2020 (“AML ACT of 2020”), el Departamento del Tesoro de los EE. UU. y el Departamento de Justicia de los EE. UU. (“DOJ”) tenían la autoridad para citar (“subpoena”) a los bancos...more
Before passage of the AML ACT of 2020 (the “ACT”), The US Department of the Treasury, and the US Justice Department (DOJ) had US legal authority to subpoena foreign banks with US correspondent accounts for related US records...more
On February 25, 2020, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of shareholders’ securities-fraud class action against the Western Union Company (“Western Union”) and several of its current and former executive...more
Leaders of FinCEN, CFTC and SEC Attempt an Intricate Dance of Competing Oversight of Virtual Currency - On October 11, the leaders of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), the Commodity Futures Trading...more
NYDFS Action Highlights the Need for Good Monitoring – and Good Consultants - In part one of this two-part post, we provided some practical tips for financial institutions to increase the chances that their Anti-Money...more
On August 30, 2016, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and four U.S. federal banking regulators sought to correct a problem—at least in part one of their own creation—by issuing a “Joint Fact Sheet on Foreign Correspondent...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and four U.S. federal banking regulators have issued the "Joint Fact Sheet on Foreign Correspondent Banking" in an effort to clarify enforcement priorities regarding Anti-Money Laundering...more