In this episode, host Lauren Pryor and her colleagues discuss the recent actions by FinCEN, which designated three Mexican financial institutions as primary money laundering concerns under the expanded Section 311 authority,...more
7/21/2025
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Cartels ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Crimes ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinCEN ,
Foreign Policy ,
International Trade ,
Mexico ,
National Security ,
Sanctions ,
Terrorism Funding ,
Terrorist Financing Regulations
On March 28, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”)’s criminal investigative arm, IRS Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced that it would be implementing a new program called CI-FIRST (Feedback in Response to...more
On June 28, 2024, the US Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (“June 2024 NPRM”) to crystalize its long-held expectation that financial institutions use...more
On February 13, 2024, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) proposed anti-money laundering (“AML”) compliance obligations for certain investment advisers (the “Proposal”)....more
2/16/2024
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Bank Secrecy Act ,
Beneficial Owner ,
BSA/AML ,
Customer Due Diligence (CDD) ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinCEN ,
Investment Adviser ,
Money Laundering ,
Popular ,
Registered Investment Advisors ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
On January 29, 2024, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (the “Department”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking seeking comment on a proposed regulation in response to the Executive Order (E.O.)...more
2/15/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
Cloud Computing ,
Comment Period ,
Customer Identification Program (CIP) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Executive Orders ,
Financial Institutions ,
IaaS ,
Machine Learning ,
National Security ,
NPRM ,
Proposed Regulation ,
U.S. Commerce Department