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UAE's enhanced AML and CTF Regime: a journey from grey list to compliance

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The UAE has continued to implement significant legislative and structural reforms during 2024 in areas including financial crime compliance, whistleblowing, and virtual assets regulation. These improvements demonstrate the...more

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Sanctions, Fraud is Coming to Town: 2022 in Review

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In 2022, the UK was forced to reckon with the charge of being soft on economic crime and being the destination of choice for kleptocrats seeking to launder their ill-gotten funds. No longer able to turn a blind eye to these...more

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OFAC Takes Action Against Virtual Currency Tornado Cash in Novel Application of Sanctions Authorities

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), on August 8, 2022, sanctioned virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash. OFAC alleged that it had been “used to launder more than $7 billion worth of...more

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Fresh inquiry into economic crime will push UK further towards expansion of ‘failure to prevent’ legislation

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On 23 October, the Treasury Committee launched a further inquiry to review what progress has been made in combatting economic crime. While the inquiry is focused on the effectiveness of the existing anti-money laundering...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 10.2.2020 | Top Story: Covid-Infected POTUS Injects Volatility to Skittish Global Markets

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Markets globally and U.S. futures are down as investors digest the news out of D.C. overnight... Jobs Report Friday again. Here’s what we’re watching for in the numbers....more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.25.2020 | Top Story: US Jobless Claims Rise As Recovery Stagnates

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New U.S. unemployment claims rose last week according to data released on Thursday, the latest sign that America’s recovery from the pandemic-induced recession is slowing—a “particularly worrisome” trend as cold-state...more

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Credit Unions Ask Senate Banking Committee to Make Cannabis Banking Safe

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In the latest chapter of the ongoing saga of the U.S. Senate’s consideration and hopeful passage of the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, on February 7, 2020, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) sent a...more

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House Members Strongly Urge Senate Banking Committee to Make “Legal” Cannabis SAFE for Banking

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On January 21, 2020, the four lead bipartisan sponsors of H.R. 1595, the SAFE Banking Act, U.S. Reps. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, Denny Heck, D-Wash., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Senate...more

Hogan Lovells

The Australian Government introduces the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Corporate Crimes) Bill 2019 (Cth) targeting...

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Recently, three of Australia's four largest banks have self-reported breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 2018 admitted fault and agreed to pay a civil...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Week in Weed: December 2019 #3

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The big news on Capitol Hill this week was the Senate’s lack of action on the banking bill.  Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), the chairman of the Senate banking committee, opposes legalization and seemed disinclined to move on...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.20.2019 | Goldman nearing $2B deal with DOJ to resolve 1MDB scandal claims

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Goldman Sachs is reportedly in negotiations with federal prosecutors to resolve claims about its role in the Malaysian 1MDB scandal for upwards of $2 billion. A settlement—which “could include a guilty plea from Goldman’s...more

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Shell Company Update: Congress and FATF Target Beneficial Ownership

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U.S. House Passes Corporate Transparency Act; FATF Issues Guidance on Identifying Entities’ Beneficial Owners - First Post in a Two-Post Series on Beneficial Ownership - As we often blog, the issue of the beneficial...more

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House Passes Bill To Protect Banks, Credit Unions And Insurance Companies Providing Services To Legal Cannabis Businesses

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Banks, credit unions and insurance companies would be protected in doing business with a wide variety of businesses including marijuana sellers if the “SAFE Act,” passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on September 26,...more

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What’s Missing From BSA/AML Reform?

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In recent months, support for Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering ("BSA/AML") reform has gained momentum in the US Congress as more than 20 pieces of reform-related legislation circulate the financial services committees....more

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Art and AML: Regulators Taking a Broad Brush Approach Using Financial Entity Regulatory Compliance as the Model for the Art World

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What do people see when they look at a piece of fine art—such as a painting by Cezanne, a sculpture by Giacometti, or a three-dimensional combine by Rauschenberg? To a great extent, it depends on who’s doing the looking. An...more

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Proposed AML Reforms Aim to Enhance and Modernize AML/CFT Enforcement

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Second Post in a Two-Post Series on the ILLICIT CASH Act - A discussion draft of legislation recently introduced in the Senate, the Improving Laundering Laws and Increasing Comprehensive Information Tracking of Criminal...more

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Lawmakers Renew Effort to Overhaul AML Laws, Including Greater Beneficial Ownership Transparency

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The Issue of Who Truly Runs and Owns Entities Contines to Gnaw at Congress and Law Enforcement - First Post in a Two-Post Series on the ILLICIT CASH Act - On June 10, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. Senate...more

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Congressional Funding Bill Pursues Approval of Financial Services for Marijuana Industry Through the (Temporary) Backdoor

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As we have blogged, there is perplexing, significant and ongoing uncertainty regarding just how federal criminal and Bank Secrecy Act laws will be – or will not be – enforced against financial institutions providing banking...more

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Senate Committee Hears from OCC, FinCEN and FBI on Risks Posed by Anonymous Corporate Structures

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Testimony Supports Bill Requiring States to Collect Beneficial Ownership Information at Entity Formation - As we have blogged, the proposed Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (the “Act”) seeks to ensure that persons who...more

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Will Banks be Able to Play it SAFE with Marijuana Related Businesses?

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Marijuana is estimated to be a $10 billion industry and rapidly growing. Almost all of it is conducted in cash. Although legal in thirty three states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam, marijuana remains illegal at...more

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Cannabis Finance - SAFE in the STATES and Maybe Beyond?

Will 2019 be the year that federal lawmakers block U.S. law enforcement and regulatory agencies from enforcing marijuana prohibitions in states where marijuana is legal and finally resolve the divergence between state and...more

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Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 Broadens Beneficial Ownership Reporting

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In early March, the House Financial Services Committee released three proposed bills to codify many of the suggested reforms discussed during ongoing conversation among financial agencies, law enforcement, financial...more

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The House Financial Services Committee Releases Proposed Legislation to Codify BSA/AML Reform Initiatives

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Last week, the House Financial Services Committee released three proposed bills to codify many of the reform ideas that have arisen in an ongoing conversation among financial agencies, law enforcement, financial institutions,...more

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Filling Gaps: Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2019 Would Expand Use of Geographic Targeting Orders

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“Sanctions Bill from Hell” Targets Real Estate Deals - On February 13, 2019, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R – S.C.) introduced S.482 – the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2019 (“DASKAA”), a bill intended...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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