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Customer Identification Program (CIP) Customer Due Diligence (CDD) BSA/AML

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Wire Fraud: Should banks CYA by tightening up on KYC?

After a long weekend, Finance Manager Joe sits at his desk to read his emails. One of the emails is from a trusted vendor with whom the Joe communicates on a regular basis, regarding an unpaid invoice that is due immediately....more

Troutman Pepper Locke

FinCEN Proposes Rule to Strengthen AML/CFT Programs

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On June 28, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a proposed rule aimed at strengthening and modernizing financial institutions’ anti-money laundering and countering the...more

Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC

SEC & FinCEN Propose Customer Identification Program Requirements

A press release was recently issued describing a significant joint proposal by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The proposal...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FinCEN Seeks to Make Investment Advisers Subject to Bank Secrecy Act

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Years in the making, on February 13, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM”) to include “investment adviser” (“IA”) within the definition of “financial institution”...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

FinCEN Proposes New Rule Requiring AML Compliance Programs for Investment Advisers

On February 15, the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), published a proposed rule that would define specified investment advisers as “financial institutions” required to implement anti-money...more

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Recent Developments Confirm AML is a Regulatory "Hot Button"

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The SEC continues to reiterate the role of broker-dealers as “gatekeepers to the securities markets” by focusing on firms’ anti-money laundering (“AML”) obligation. The import that the SEC, as well as FINRA, places on firms’...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Treasury Proposes Regulations That Would Require Private Trust Companies to Establish or Enhance AML Programs and to Identify...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published proposed regulations on August 25, 2016 that would require certain private trust companies utilized by high net worth individuals,...more

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