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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2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 51 – The Compliance Week at 20 Edition
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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
17 Back in 2021, the U.S. Government passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which was an effort to improve upon the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and bolster the nation’s defenses against Money Laundering and Terrorist...more
In September 2024, FinCEN issued the Investment Adviser Rule, which aims to “address ongoing illicit finance risks, threats, and vulnerabilities posed by criminals and foreign adversaries that exploit the U.S. financial...more
On July 21, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that it intends to delay implementation of its final rule, Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism...more
On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced that it will suspend enforcement of penalties and fines related to beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) for...more
In yet another update to the ongoing saga of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the agency of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury Department”) that enforces the...more
Does it matter if a law is valid if the Government refuses to enforce it? For months, we have watched (and blogged on) courts grappling with the constitutionality and enforceability of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”)....more
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that it will not issue any fines or penalties or otherwise take any enforcement actions based on any failure to file or update...more
As we previously blogged, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Center (“FinCEN”) published Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers (“Final Rule”) regarding residential real estate. The Final Rule,...more
On 13 February 2024, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a groundbreaking Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to combat illicit finance and national security threats in the investment adviser sector. The...more
On February 7, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) designed to combat and deter money laundering in the U.S....more
Following consideration of comments received from an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, on February 16, 2024, FinCEN issued a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that for the first time would require non-financed...more
“In residential real estate sales, all parties involved, including sellers, developers, title companies, attorneys, and closing agents, need to be aware of reporting requirements. Consider a situation where a commercial...more
To crack down on money-laundering in the U.S. residential real estate market, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has proposed new reporting requirements for certain real estate transactions. Specifically, the...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a new notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), referred to herein as the "Proposed Rule," that would subject SEC-registered...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), a bureau within the U.S. Treasury Department, has issued a proposed rule (the “Proposal”) that would subject certain investment advisers to anti-money laundering (“AML”)...more
On February 7, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a new rule to increase reporting requirements for nonfinanced, entity-purchased residential real estate. FinCEN...more
The United States Department of the Treasury has announced that it is working to address what it perceives as money laundering risks associated with investment advisers. Specifically, the agency asserts that absent consistent...more
...SEC Adopts Amendments to Fund Names Rule - On September 20, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Fund Names Rule) as well...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has published a Small Entity Compliance Guide (the “Guide”) for beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), as well as...more
The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently proposed a new rule (the Proposed Rule) regarding beneficial ownership information access and safeguards pursuant to the Corporate Transparency Act....more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (the Treasury) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a highly anticipated final rule on September 29, 2022, implementing the beneficial ownership information (BOI)...more
On December 8, 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published in the Federal Register its first installment of widely anticipated Proposed Rules regarding the Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (CTA). The...more
The Corporate Transparency Act of 2020 (the “CTA”) was enacted in January 2021 as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 to prevent the use of shell companies to evade anti-money laundering and economic sanctions...more
On December 7, 2021, the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a highly anticipated notice of proposed rulemaking (the Proposed Rule) to implement the beneficial ownership reporting...more
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: - The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a proposed rule to implement portions of the Corporate Transparency Act codified at 31 U.S.C. § 5336 (CTA). ...more