On August 28, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule that expressly includes certain investment advisers in the definition of a “financial institution”...more
In late June 2024, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a proposed rule to modernize the anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) program...more
The US Department of the Treasury has released an Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance, which indicates that the Treasury Department sees significant risks associated with decentralized finance (DeFi)...more