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Jenner & Block

Client Alert: A Second Wave: FinCEN and SEC Further Extend Investment Advisers’ AML Obligations with New CIP Requirements

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In a sequel to FinCEN’s proposal earlier this year to extend anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act regulations to investment advisers (AML/BSA Proposal), on May 13, 2024, FinCEN and the SEC jointly issued a new Notice of...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: December 2023

A recent OCC report identified key issues facing the federal banking system, including increasing credit risk due to higher interest rates, increasing risk in commercial real estate lending, prolonged inflation, declining...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Twinkle-Twinkle Little SAR: SEC & FINRA Settle with Broker-Dealers and Registered Rep

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In a series of settlements announced this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) penalized several broker-dealers for allegedly failing to file...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Subpoena Responses for Financial Institutions

Financial services companies, such as banks, credit unions, lenders, finance companies, loan servicers, broker-dealers, and securities firms, often receive subpoenas from parties in litigation involving their customers,...more

Troutman Pepper

FinCEN Warns of Surging Check Fraud

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On February 28, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of Treasury (FinCEN) issued an alert warning financial institutions to be vigilant in identifying and reporting check fraud schemes targeting the...more

Oberheiden P.C.

AML Enforcement

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Federal law enforcement takes money laundering and other suspicious transactions extremely seriously. Unfortunately, this does not mean that legal scrutiny is confined to the criminal actors and organizations that launder...more

A&O Shearman

English High Court provides important clarification of Banks’ ‘Quincecare Duty’

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The so-called ‘Quincecare duty’ has received heightened attention in the English courts in recent years. The duty requires a bank not to execute a customer’s payment instructions where, and for so long as, the bank has...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: March 2022

CFPB Announces Intention to Expand Enforcement Against Unfair Discrimination - The CFPB has published an updated examination manual for evaluating unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts and practices (“UDAAPs”), which explains...more

Goodwin

CFPB Launches New Initiative Focused on Rural Communities

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In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a new initiative focused on financial issues faced by rural communities and also updated its examination procedures to cover unfair discrimination; the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Real Estate and Money Laundering: FinCEN Issues Advanced Notice of Regulations for the Real Estate Industry

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On December 6, FinCEN announced that it was issuing an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“AMPRM”) to solicit public comment on potential requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) for certain persons involved in...more

Miller Nash LLP

I Just Wanna Know—Federal Bank Regulators to Require Notice of Major Cyber Security Events

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Hardly a day goes by without news of a new cybercrime hobbling a major business.1 The grand scope of the SolarWinds hack, which went undetected for many months, underscored that even the most sophisticated technology...more

White & Case LLP

Winning the AML Intelligence War with Public Private Partnerships

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Key considerations for banks engaging with governments and peer institutions to improve financial crime compliance systems - Every year, banks spend billions of dollars on core financial crime compliance systems and are...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: October 2021

Federal and State Financial Regulators Publish New Guidance on LIBOR Transition - The federal banking agencies, the NCUA and the CFPB, in conjunction with the state bank and state credit union regulators, have issued joint...more

Goodwin

Federal Agencies Issue Joint Statement on Management of LIBOR Transition

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In This Issue. Federal agencies issued a joint statement regarding an orderly transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR); the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued an updated...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

FinCEN on fire: Rapid release of AML Act updates

On June 30, 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) provided an update on implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act) and issued the first government-wide priorities for anti-money...more

Holland & Knight LLP

FinCEN Announces National AML/CFT Policy Priorities

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on June 30, 2021, issued national priorities for anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) policy (the Priorities), as required by the...more

Oberheiden P.C.

5 Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and Defense Tips

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1. AML Laws - Federal anti-money laundering (“AML”) laws are complex in nature and apply to a broad category of institutions and businesses. One of the most important AML laws is the Bank Secrecy Act, which obligates...more

Alston & Bird

Avoiding Pitfalls During Post-Pandemic Government Investigations

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CSI: Confidential Supervisory Information is not a show many banks would enjoy watching, but it’s one of three areas our Financial Services & Products Group notes banks should keep in mind if they become the subject of...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Banking and Cannabis Enforcement Round Up:  NCUA Imposes First Penalty Relating to Cannabis Banking Services; Cannabis Industry...

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Much has occurred in the last two months regarding the relationship between financial institutions and Marijuana-Related Businesses, or MRBs. In this post, we discuss three major developments, all of which share a complex...more

Jones Day

2020 Anti-Money Laundering Year in Review

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2020 witnessed a flurry of anti-money laundering activity, with the issues and developments continuing to be global in scope. In the United States, suspicious activity reports, outlining transactions involving terrorism...more

Goodwin

Biden Administration Issues Regulatory Freeze On New Agency Rules

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In this Issue. In one of its first acts after being installed on January 20, the Biden Administration issued a regulatory freeze on new agency rules that have been adopted but are not yet effective; in one of its final acts...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FinCEN and Other Federal Banking Agencies Provide Much-Needed Guidance on Suspicious Activity Reports

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SARs Do Not Need to Be Filed At the First Sign of Potential Problems - Honoring “Keep Open” Letters from Law Enforcement Should Not Lead to Criticism - On January 19, 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network...more

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The OCC Embraces Technology, Proposes Exemption to SAR Requirements and Announces Acceptance of Distributed Ledgers and...

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The Comptroller of the Currency (the “OCC”) has been busy, and focused on technology. We discuss two recent developments: proposed regulations that would allow the OCC to grant exemptions relating to Suspicious Acivity...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Major Changes in AML Compliance and Enforcement: Part 1-Introduction to the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020

2020 was a most significant year in anti-corruption enforcement; from Airbus to Goldman Sachs and numerous matters in between. Further there were two significant pieces of information from the US government in the form of the...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: December 2020

FDIC Modernizes Brokered Deposit Rule and Amends Interest Rate Restrictions - The FDIC has adopted a final rule that establishes new standards for determining whether deposits made through certain kinds of arrangements...more

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