Financial Crimes, Customer Identification Program (CIP), Financial Institutions

FinCEN Order Allows Banks to Collect Taxpayer Information from Third Parties

McGlinchey Stafford on 7/10/2025

In a significant move, on June 27, 2025 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order granting banks and their subsidiaries an exemption from the Customer Identification...more

No Full TIN, No Problem: FinCEN Approves of TIN Verification Through a Third Party

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 7/8/2025

On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order (Order) allowing banks,[1] and their subsidiaries, subject to the jurisdiction of the Office of the Comptroller...more

FinCEN Proposes Rule to Strengthen AML/CFT Programs

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/3/2024

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

Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Investment Advisors – Yes, Financial Crime is Borderless and Legal Entity-Agnostic

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 5/24/2024

There is a growing acknowledgement that money laundering and terrorist financing is borderless and legal entity-agnostic, just as it is already known that cybercriminals and the means to commit cybercrimes continuously attack...more

FinCEN Proposes New Rule Requiring AML Compliance Programs for Investment Advisers

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 2/26/2024

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

BSA, OFAC, KYC, and CIP – What do they mean to me? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 29]

McGlinchey Stafford on 9/16/2021

The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and parts of the U.S. Patriot Act’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) requirements have seemingly similar goals: to prevent money laundering and the funding of terrorist activities. Yet a...more