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
Daily Compliance News: May 19, 2025, The Definition of Corruption Edition
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 51 – The Compliance Week at 20 Edition
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
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau vs. the Video Game Industry
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
Examining FinCEN FAQs, Proposed Legislation and Other CTA Developments
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 July 21, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that it was delaying the effective date of its final rule establishing Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing...more
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 issued an interim final rule that removes the requirement for US companies and US persons to report beneficial ownership information to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act....more
As discussed in our March 4 Client Alert, following its February 27 and March 2 announcements suspending enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and promising additional CTA compliance guidance, on the evening of...more
U.S. companies can exhale. All entities created in the U.S. – including those previously known as “domestic reporting companies” and their beneficial owners – will be exempt from Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) reporting...more
Update: On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule that removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) under...more
After months of litigation—including a cameo before the Supreme Court—the last nationwide injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was vacated and the CTA was set to go back into effect. Since then, nothing has been...more
UPDATE as of 3/4/25: As of February 18, 2025, all nationwide injunctions barring the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) had been lifted. For approximately ten days, the CTA mandatory beneficial...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
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
On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted the federal government’s motion for a stay pending appeal and lifted the nationwide preliminary injunction in Smith, et al. v. U.S....more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) introduced substantial new reporting obligations for a wide array of corporate entities. Generally, any domestic entity formed by filing documents with a secretary of state or similar...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
The final judicial barrier to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements has been lifted. The Corporate...more
Earlier this week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a new notice confirming that the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements are back in effect....more
UPDATE as of 2/20/25: The on-again, off-again Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) mandatory beneficial ownership reporting is now back in effect. On February 18, 2025, the Texas federal district court in Smith v. United...more
The Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) reporting requirements are officially back in force, requiring non-exempt entities to disclose beneficial ownership information (BOI). This week, a Texas federal court lifted the last...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted in 2021, mandates that companies disclose their true ownership to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to combat illicit financial activities. However, its...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
Key Takeaway: Following a court decision on February 18, 2025, the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) beneficial ownership reporting requirements are once again in effect. Most companies will have until Friday, March 21,...more
On Feb. 17, the Texas federal district court in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury granted the government’s motion for an immediate stay pending appeal of the nationwide order staying the effective date of the final...more
The beneficial ownership information reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are now back in force. As described in more detail below, the majority of Reporting Companies are required to file their...more
The preliminary injunction in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury that was still pausing any required filings by reporting companies under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was lifted on February 17, 2025 by...more
The courts have spoken, and the last nationwide injunction has fallen. FinCEN has a green light to enforce the Corporate Transparency Act, and the federal agency has set a new deadline in March for companies to report....more