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Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury charged with detecting and combatting illegal activity within the financial system. FinCEN detects evidence of money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes by collecting, monitoring, and analyzing financial transaction data. Such data is disseminated to both domestic and international law enforcement agencies. less -

FinCEN’s Focus on Cryptocurrency Kiosks and Financial Crime

Ballard Spahr LLP on 8/26/2025

On August 4, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued Notice FIN-2025-NTC1 (the “Notice”) to address mounting concerns over regulatory risks related to convertible virtual currency (“CVC”) kiosks, also...more

FinCEN Addresses Increased Fraud Involving Convertible Virtual Currency Kiosks

Perkins Coie on 8/11/2025

Key Takeaways - - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s recently issued notice, which addresses regulations and increased rates of fraud surrounding convertible virtual currency kiosks, carries significant implications...more

FinCEN Warns Financial Institutions of Fraud Schemes Arising from Deepfake Media Using Generative Artificial Intelligence

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/14/2024

Today the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an Alert to help financial institutions identify fraud schemes relying in part on the use of deepfake media created through...more

Investment Advisors Face Added Regulation That Could Potentially Impact Litigation

DarrowEverett LLP on 2/29/2024

On February 13, 2024, FinCEN issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to deter criminals and foreign adversaries who seek to potentially compromise the U.S. financial system and assets through investment advisors. If...more

Binance Settles Criminal and Civil AML and Sanctions Enforcement Actions for Multiple Billions – While its Founder, Owner and...

Ballard Spahr LLP on 11/27/2023

As the world now knows, Binance Holdings Limited, doing business as Binance.com (“Binance” or the “Company”), has entered into a plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”)....more

Financial Crime Horizon Scanner: 2022 - Q1 (US)

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 5/2/2022

Our quarterly Financial Crime Horizon Scanner for the US summarizes key financial crime related legal and regulatory changes expected over the next 2 years and provides electronic links to key resources. We hope that you...more

The United States Strategy on Countering Corruption: Digging into the Anti-Corruption Initiatives (Part III of III)

The Volkov Law Group on 12/16/2021

The new United States Strategy on Countering Corruption includes several important statements of interest to legal and compliance professionals. ...more

Off‐Shore Crypto Exchange to Pay Up to $100 Million to Resolve Enforcement Action with U.S. Regulators

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 8/20/2021

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reached one of the largest-ever resolutions with a cryptocurrency exchange on August 10, 2021. BitMEX is virtual currency...more

Biden Administration Issues Regulatory Freeze On New Agency Rules

Goodwin on 1/29/2021

In this Issue. In one of its first acts after being installed on January 20, the Biden Administration issued a regulatory freeze on new agency rules that have been adopted but are not yet effective; in one of its final acts...more

The Department of Justice Announces the First-of-its-Kind Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework

Cozen O'Connor on 10/12/2020

On October 8, 2020, Attorney General William Barr announced the release of a Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework produced by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Cyber-Digital Task Force. The 83-page framework is intended to help...more

Recent regulatory developments regarding AML requirements for broker-dealers

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 11/13/2019

On October 11, 2019, the leaders of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a...more

Financial Regulatory Leaders Highlight Anti-Money Laundering Issues With Digital Asset Transactions - Regulators highlight AML/CFT...

Jones Day on 10/23/2019

On October 11, 2019, the heads of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC"), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN"), issued a joint statement...more

Blockchain Week in Review - October 2019

Perkins Coie on 10/18/2019

U.S. Developments - U.S. Federal Regulatory Developments - CFTC, FinCEN, and SEC Leaders Release a Join Statement on Digital Assets - On October 11, 2019, the heads of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”),...more

Joint Statement on Digital Assets from CFTC, SEC and FinCEN - a Warning to the Crypto Industry regarding Anti-Money Laundering and...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/15/2019

The leaders of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Agencies”) issued a joint statement to remind persons engaged in...more

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