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 August 5, the FDIC announced that banks it supervises can comply with Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) requirements to obtain identity information from new customers by using a pre-populated form, provided that the person opening...more
The UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has updated its general guidance on financial sanctions, introducing a new licensing ground under Section 6.6, permitting the return of funds from designated Money...more
On July 18, 2025, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovations for U.S. Stablecoins Act (the “GENIUS Act”) was signed into law by President Trump. The GENIUS Act is the first federal legislation regulating cryptocurrency...more
On August 5, 2025, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued FIL-39-2025 to state that an FDIC-supervised institution can use pre-populated customer information to satisfy the requirements of the Customer...more
Financial institutions across the U.S. have grappled with compliance requirements under the Customer Identification Program, or CIP, rule for more than two decades. On June 27, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the...more
On July 21, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a two-year postponement of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Program and...more
The recent Orders issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on June 25, 2025, designating CIBanco, Intercam, and Vector as institutions of primary money laundering concern,...more
FinCEN will work through the rulemaking process to formally extend the IA AML Rule effective date and intends to provide the IA sector with regulatory certainty by issuing appropriate exemptive relief delaying the effective...more
The Financial Conduct Authority (“the FCA”) has published final guidance on the treatment of politically exposed persons (PEPs) for anti-money laundering purposes, which updates its Guidance issued in 2017 (“the 2017...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has announced that it intends to postpone the effective date of the final rule establishing anti-money laundering (AML) and suspicious...more
Our Financial Services and Investment Funds Teams examine the delay by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the effective date for the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT)...more
The rise of crypto assets and decentralized finance has challenged traditional regulatory frameworks, particularly in the area of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism ("AML/CFT")....more
Bank of Italy, following the public consultation issued in January 2025, extended the Regulation on customer due diligence and the Regulation on organization, procedures and internal controls to crypto-asset service providers...more
FinCEN’s announcement clearly reflected its sensitivity to industry concerns. It acknowledged that AML/CFT Rules “must be effectively tailored to the diverse business models and risk profiles of the investment adviser...more
Join Lowenstein Sandler and Santamarina + Steta for a timely webinar exploring the legal and compliance implications of recent U.S. Treasury actions under the FEND Off Fentanyl Act. The session, featuring Lowenstein's Robert...more
On Friday, July 18, President Donald J. Trump signed into law historic legislation to establish a legal framework for the payment stablecoin industry in the United States, S.1582, the Guiding and Establishing National...more
On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed the Guaranteed Essential National Infrastructure for U.S. Act (the “GENIUS Act”) into law, marking the first comprehensive U.S. federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. ...more
The European Union Anti-Money Laundering ("AML") package includes Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 31, 2024, establishing the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering...more
We continue our series on the legal and regulatory challenges facing individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs); this time, we are focusing on the fintech-related requirements that may apply to ICHRA...more
The growing need for quick capital in today’s fluid investing market has led to a recent trend of requests for expedited closings with aggressive timelines and inflexible targeted closing dates. While banks certainly strive...more
On 21 May 2025, the Hong Kong Legislative Council passed the much-anticipated Stablecoins Bill (“Bill”), now citable as the Stablecoins Ordinance (“Ordinance”), marking a significant milestone in the city’s ambition to become...more
Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) and Exempt Reporting Advisers (ERAs) were less than six months away from the requirement to implement an anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) program...more
We blogged last year about the Final Rule issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) extending Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT)...more
On July 14, 2025, the federal banking agencies issued a joint statement to clarify regulatory expectations for banking organizations that provide or are considering providing safekeeping for crypto-assets (“Joint Statement”)....more
On July 18, 2025, the President signed the GENIUS Act into law, setting clear rules for who can issue payment stablecoins in the U.S. Only permitted issuers and registered foreign issuers are allowed, and they must follow...more