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FinCEN’s Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order Faces Challenges in Texas and Southern California

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In March, we wrote about the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issuing a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) aimed to combat Mexican-based drug cartels. The GTO signals Treasury’s efforts to...more

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How the Trump Administration’s War on Cartels Will Reshape the Financial Sector

On March 11, 2025, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) aimed at disrupting drug trafficking and money laundering along the southwestern border. The...more

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FinCEN Issues Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order Aimed to Combat Mexican-based Drug Cartels

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We have written previously about the new administration’s significant shifts in its approach to criminal enforcement and prosecution of money laundering cases. Specifically, we wrote about shifts at the U.S. Department of...more

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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 requires several southwest counties to report cash transactions over $200

On March 11, FinCEN issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) to combat “illicit activities and money laundering of Mexico-based cartels” along the U.S. southwest border. The order requires money service businesses in select...more

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FinCEN’s Geographic Targeting Order Increases Reporting Obligations for Money Services Businesses Located Near the United...

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On March 11, 2025, the United States Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) requiring certain money service businesses (MSBs) in...more

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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

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FinCEN Releases Year-in-Review for FY 2023: SARs, CTRs and Information Sharing

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has issued its Year in Review for FY 2023 (“YIR”). It consists of five pages of infographics. According to FinCEN’s press release...more

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FinCEN Issues Notice on Counterfeit Passport Card Fraud

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has issued a Notice on the Use of Counterfeit U.S. Passport Cards to Perpetrate Identity Theft and Fraud Schemes at Financial Institutions (“Notice”), asking financial...more

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Criminal Case Round-Up: Recent Prosecutions Involving Financial Institution Officers

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The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has been very active in the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) / Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) space, as reflected by a recent series of individual prosecutions and corporate non-prosecution agreements...more

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FinCEN Issues Notice on Payroll Tax Evasion and Workers’ Compensation Fraud in the Construction Industry

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has issued a notice entitled “FinCEN Calls Attention to Payroll Tax Evasion and Workers’ Compensation Fraud in the Construction Sector” (the “Notice”). According to the...more

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AML Act Deadlines Through January 1, 2022 – A Daunting List

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) recently complied with two important deadlines under the Anti-Money Laundering Act (“AML Act”) — issuing national priorities for AML and countering the financing of...more

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Training and Developing a Culture of Compliance

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With tightening budgets, increasing regulatory expectations, and a growing number of risks, compliance teams at financial institutions face big challenges as they work to fulfill their mission to mitigate financial crimes and...more

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Employment Law Implications of the New Anti-Money Laundering Act

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When Congress overrode President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act on January 1, 2021, it enacted the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA), which was part of the defense authorization bill.  In doing so,...more

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The BSA Casts A Wider Net

On  September 15, 2020,  FinCEN issued a Final Rule stating that Banks lacking a Federal Functional Regulator will be required to establish and implement AML programs including policies and procedures,  a dedicated compliance...more

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A Winning Anti-Money Laundering Strategy: Strengthen Your Defense Against Financial Crimes

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The stakes are high in combating global financial crime. If criminals succeed in hiding ill-gotten gains, they can continue to commit crimes and finance terrorism. ...more

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FinCEN, OCC and FBI Offer Diverging Views on AML Reform in U.S. Senate Testimony

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First Post in a Two-Part Series - Late last week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (the “Banking Committee”) met in open session to conduct a hearing on “Combating Money Laundering and Other...more

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FinCEN Director Continues to Push Value of SARs and Other BSA Data

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As we just blogged, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) Director Kenneth Blanco recently touted the value of Suspicious Activity Reports (“SARs”) in the context of discussing anti-money laundering (“AML”)...more

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The U.S. Casino and Gaming Industry: AML/BSA Regulation and Enforcement

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As we blogged yesterday, British Columbia’s (“B.C.”) Attorney General David Eby recently released an independent and very detailed report examining money laundering in B.C.’s gaming industry and providing 48 recommendations...more

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