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FATF Revises AML Standards For Certain Funds Transfers

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On June 18, 2025, the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) revised the Travel Rule requirements for certain funds transfers (the “2025 Revisions”). The 2025 Revisions are intended to adapt anti-money laundering (“AML”)...more

Robinson Bradshaw

Application of New Anti-Money Laundering Regulations to Advisers to Private Funds

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On Sept. 4, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a final rule imposing new anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) requirements on...more

Hogan Lovells

UPDATE #2: Effective date of FinCEN’s Section 2313a orders against three Mexican financial institutions delayed until September 4

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U.S. financial institutions that conduct funds transfers with the designated Mexican institutions have until 4 September to implement compliance procedures. Transfers of funds involving these designated Mexican institutions...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A New Rule Embraces Modernity in the Customer Identification Process

Financial institutions across the United States have grappled with compliance requirements under the Customer Identification Program (CIP) Rule for more than two decades. A new exemption, approved in June 2025, promises...more

Perkins Coie

FinCEN Uses “Special Measures” To Combat Fentanyl Money Laundering, Raising Concerns Around Targeted Mexican Financial...

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) took a historic step in combating the fentanyl crisis on June 25, 2025, by exercising, for the first time, the expansive authorities granted...more

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FinCEN invokes new Section 2313a authority against three Mexican financial institutions: The who, what, when, where, why, and...

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The orders represent the first use of new authorities by FinCEN. U.S. based financial institutions that conduct funds transfers with the designated Mexican institutions will be subject to significant compliance obligations,...more

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FinCEN's New Reporting Requirements for Nonfinanced Residential Real Estate Transactions

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Effective 1 December 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will implement comprehensive nationwide regulations aimed at increasing transparency and combating money laundering in the United States residential...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

New Reporting Requirement for Certain Residential Real Estate Transfers

Effective December 1, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will implement new rules for non-financed residential real estate transfers. The purpose of the rule is to increase...more

Bilzin Sumberg

The Corporate Transparency Act: Ready, Set, Go!

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It’s official: the Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”) has gone into effect January 1, 2024. On December 21, 2023, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued its second final rule establishing the framework...more

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U.S. Senate and House of Representatives Introduce Competing Crypto Regulation Bills

On July 12, 2023,  U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) proposed a revised version of their previously introduced crypto regulation bill to create better safeguards for the crypto industry...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Will Mandate Disclosure of ‘Beneficial Owners’ of New and Existing Entities

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A new federal law poised to take effect soon will impose new disclosure duties on the individuals and businesses that form new entities and the professionals who assist them. The Corporate Transparency Act was passed by...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

New Rules Will Require Beneficial Ownership Reporting to Federal Regulators by U.S. and Foreign Corporations, LLCs, and Other...

On December 8, 2021, the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published its proposed regulations on beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements. These FinCEN regulations will...more

King & Spalding

FinCEN Issues Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Priorities

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FinCEN announces eight areas of focus and advises preparation for issuance of new regulations - On June 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued the first...more

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The Corporate Transparency Act – Government KYC

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Summary of the Corporate Transparency Act under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 - On January 1, 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”), which is part of the National Defense...more

Allen Matkins

Corporate Transparency Act: New Requirements to Disclose Ownership Information to the Federal Government

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The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) became a law on January 1, 2021, and it has significant implications for many new and existing United States and foreign business entities. The law will impose completely new,...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

FinCEN Issues Advisory on the Reporting of Cyber-Events and Cyber-Enabled Crimes

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, an arm of the United States Department of the Treasury, issued an advisory last week to remind financial institutions of their obligations to report cyber-events on...more

Allen Matkins

Funds and Investment Advisers: Changes Coming in AML Compliance

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Anti-money laundering (AML) regulation has continued to evolve since it was introduced in 1970 under the broad regulatory scheme commonly known as the Bank Secrecy Act. While funds and investment advisers have not been...more

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