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Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Anti-Money Laundering Quarterly - July 2025

Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important domestic and international Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory and enforcement developments from the...more

Morgan Lewis

FinCEN Issues First Transaction Ban on Certain Mexico-Based Financial Institutions

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In a historic first, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network recently published orders prohibiting transactions with covered Mexico-based financial institutions. On June 30, 2025, the US...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

FinCEN’s Groundbreaking 2313a Orders: What U.S. Banks Need to Know About the Crackdown on Mexican Cartel-Linked Financial...

In a historic move that signals a new era in the fight against illicit opioid trafficking and money laundering, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued its first-ever...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FinCEN Designates Three Mexican Financial Institutions as Primary Money Laundering Concerns Linked to Opioid Trafficking

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On June 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued three orders designating CIBanco S.A., Intercam Banco S.A., and Vector Casa de Bolsa, S.A. de C.V. (collectively,...more

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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

Hogan Lovells

UPDATE: Effective date regarding FinCEN’s new Section 2313a Orders against three Mexican financial institutions

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U.S. based financial institutions that conduct funds transfers with the designated Mexican institutions have until 21 July to implement compliance procedures. Transfers of funds involving these designated Mexican...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Recent SEC AML Enforcement Actions’ Impact on Compliance Efforts in the Cannabis Sector

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Investing in the cannabis industry is not without its risks, given the evolving regulatory landscape and the varying state and federal statuses of the product itself. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Washington’s War on Cartels Continues: What Financial Institutions Should Know About Oil Smuggling, Money Laundering &...

The Trump administration remains focused on countering Mexican cartels and other Latin American transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). Since designating eight TCOs as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), the...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

First Terrorism Indictments Announced Over Drug Cartel Support

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Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed its first indictment against a foreign national for providing material support to a Mexican drug cartel that the current administration recently designated a foreign...more

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Recent SEC AML Enforcement Against Securities Firms Engaged in Cannabis Sector

The evolving regulatory landscape for marijuana-related businesses poses unique compliance challenges for firms in the securities industry. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) continues to enforce its 2014...more

Cozen O'Connor

Bipartisan AG Coalition Targets WeChat’s Alleged Role in Fentanyl-Linked Money Laundering

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A bipartisan coalition of six AGs, led by North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson, has sent a demand letter to WeChat US, Inc., seeking answers about the app’s alleged role in facilitating transnational money laundering operations...more

Morgan Lewis

DOJ Announces New Corporate Enforcement Policies

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The US Department of Justice on May 12, 2025 announced revisions to the Criminal Division’s “enforcement priorities and policies for prosecuting corporate and white-collar crimes” under the current US administration. The new...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Navigating FinCEN’s Actions on Huione Group: Strengthening Defenses Against Money Laundering

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On May 1, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the Huione Group, a foreign financial institution located in Cambodia. This proposal, enacted under...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FinCEN Joins the Government-Wide Pursuit of Cartels

On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) specifically aimed at combatting Mexico-based cartels and other criminals along the southwest border of the United...more

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FinCEN Lowers Reporting Threshold for MSBs Near U.S.-Mexico Border to Combat Money Laundering

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On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) requiring all money services businesses (MSBs) operating within 30 specified ZIP codes near the U.S.-Mexico border...more

Hogan Lovells

The Sword and the Scales: Enforcement and restraint in the ongoing development of Singapore’s AML framework

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The Singapore Anti-Money Laundering and Other Matters Act 2024 (the “Act”), which came into effect at the end of 2024, concluded a year of legislative developments in Singapore that were aimed at strengthening the country’s...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Oh No, Canada! Takeaways from the Indictment of a Canadian National Allegedly Responsible for $65 Million DeFi Cryptocurrency...

On February 3, 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) unsealed an indictment against Andean Medjedovic, a 22-year-old Canadian national, for allegedly stealing approximately $65 million...more

The Volkov Law Group

Family International and Owner Pay $1.07 Million to Settle Violations of Russia Sanctions Program

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Family International, a Florida real estate company, and its U.S. owner, Roman Sinyavsky, settled with  OFAC for $1.07 million for 73 violations of the Russia Sanctions program.  In a separate criminal case, Roman Sinyavsky...more

DLA Piper

Recent Settlement Demonstrates DOJ’s Focus on Foreign Entities Misrepresenting Anti-Money Laundering Compliance

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that Wall Street Exchange (WSE), a Dubai-based money exchange service provider, entered into a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) and agreed to pay more than $9.2 million to...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Tornado Cash Whiplash – What’s Next for Sanctions?

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We find ourselves in the midst of a raucous debate among sanctions practitioners about the impact of the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision upholding a challenge against the sanctions the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)...more

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CTA Update: Supreme Court Grants Stay of Preliminary Injunction on Corporate Transparency Act

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On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the federal government a stay of the preliminary injunction foreclosing enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop,...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

The High Cost of Noncompliance: Making Sense of BitMEX’s $100 Million AML Penalty

On January 15, 2025, BitMEX, a Seychelles-registered crypto exchange, was fined $100 million in connection with a previously entered guilty plea to criminal violations of US anti-money laundering (AML) laws. The penalty...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for December 2024

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FinCEN Issues Consent Order Against Card Club for “Fundamentally Unsound” AML Program

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has entered into a Consent Order with the Sahara Dunes Casino, doing business as the Lake Elsinore Hotel and Casino (“Lake Elsinore”).  The Consent Order describes Lake...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

TD Bank, Part 6 – Caremark Claims – The Board of Directors

Today, I continue my exploration of the TD Bank AML/BSA enforcement action through two of the most significant cases regarding Boards of Directors and corporate compliance: the Caremark and Stone v. Ritter decisions. The...more

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