Compliance Tip of the Day: Citibank and Continuous Monitoring
Compliance into the Weeds: Sanctions Compliance Failures: Lessons from Harman International and Interactive Brokers
Episode 377 -- Refocusing Due Diligence on Cartels and TCOs
Upping Your Game: Continuous Monitoring with AI
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Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 12, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 7, 2025, The Whistleblowers Awarded Edition
Strengthening Compliance: Lessons From the OCC's Consent Order With Patriot Bank — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Great Women in Compliance: Roundtable on The Future of Financial Crime Prevention
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 50 - Hidden in Plain Sight: How Kleptocrats Exploit U.S. Financial Systems
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: TD Bank Agrees to Pay Over $3 Billion for Systemic Violations of Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Violations
Episode 343 -- TD Bank Agrees to Pay Over $3 Billion for Systemic Violations of Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Violations
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Business Better Podcast Episode: FinCEN’s Notice of Proposed Regulations to Strengthen and Modernize AML/CFT Compliance Programs
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Companies and the Corporate Transparency Act
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Practical Lessons Learned Regarding the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering for Financial Institutions - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Analyzing the Treasury's Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
On March 21, 2025, FinCEN released an interim final rule (the “Interim Final Rule”) that exempts domestic reporting companies and U.S. persons from being required to report beneficial ownership and company applicant...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (FinCEN) has changed the rules once again on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Despite recently announcing that the new filing deadline for...more
Stay tuned – another shoe is likely to drop from Washington D.C. on the CTA (“Corporate Transparency Act”) in the next three weeks. As we previously reported on February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more
Due to the February 17, 2025, decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., 6:24-cv-00336 (E.D. Tex.), the prior enjoinment of the Corporate...more
On February 18, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a notice extending the deadline for reporting companies to file their Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reports under the Corporate...more
Newly Formed Entities Have 30 Days to File - On February 17, 2025, the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. United States Department of the Treasury lifted the last remaining nationwide preliminary injunction on...more
After months of litigation, the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is once again effective, and most companies subject to the CTA are required to file Beneficial Ownership Information (“BOI”) reports with the U.S. Treasury’s...more
Starting last January, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has opened a portal for businesses to file their beneficial ownership information reports (BOI). The BOI is the U.S. Treasury’s...more
Seventy-two hours after a motions panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the effect of a nationwide preliminary injunction imposed by a Texas federal district court blocking the reporting deadline for...more
As of December 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated its prior order staying the nationwide injunction against the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). This means that enforcement of the CTA is once...more
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order temporarily staying the nationwide preliminary injunction previously granted in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al. While...more
On December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an Order which granted a stay of a lower court’s nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA or the Act). Texas Top Cop...more
On December 23, 2024, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit lifted the preliminary injunction recently imposed by a Texas district court that had blocked the reporting deadline for filing Beneficial...more
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a stay of the previously issued nationwide injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., which had the effect of reinstating...more
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a stay on the preliminary injunction that halted enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), pending resolution of the government’s appeal...more
In a per curiam ruling dated Dec. 23, 2024, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary stay of the district court’s Dec. 5 order and injunction against enforcement of the Corporate...more
On December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the government’s emergency motion for a stay, effectively blocking a nationwide injunction issued by a district court against the Corporate Transparency Act...more
As we previously communicated in a client compliance alert last November, the federal Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA went into effect on January 1, 2024) requires certain organizations including corporations, limited...more
As we near the end of 2024, it’s crucial to be aware of an important deadline under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Reporting companies formed before January 1, 2024, must file their initial Beneficial Ownership...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the federal initiative to limit money laundering, tax evasion, and other illicit activities, took effect on Jan. 1, 2024. The CTA requires many businesses and their owners to register...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced as of October 29, 2024, a six-month extension for certain businesses affected by recent hurricanes to submit their beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently announced plans to provide relief to victims of recent hurricanes and natural disasters, including Hurricane Helene. FinCEN is providing an additional six months to...more
Over 30 million companies now have less than 70 days to file their initial reports under the new federal Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Here is the bottom line and why it matters. ...more
On Monday, July 8, 2024, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released additional FAQs specifying that a reporting company (i.e., a company to which no exemption applies) created or...more
Background - In January 2021, the United States Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. This law, while intended to prevent criminal actors from hiding and...more