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U.S. FinCEN's Order Targeting CIBanco Will Upend Mexican Fiduciary Market

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In late June 2025, the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network), under new authorities granted pursuant to the Fentanyl Sanctions Act, the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, and in line with President Trump’s...more

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Key Measures for Mexican Entities to Prevent FinCEN Scrutiny

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The recent Orders issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on June 25, 2025, designating CIBanco, Intercam, and Vector as institutions of primary money laundering concern,...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

[Webinar] Targeted: How FinCEN's Fentanyl Fight Is Reshaping U.S.–Mexico Financial Compliance - August 7th, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET

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Join Lowenstein Sandler and Santamarina + Steta for a timely webinar exploring the legal and compliance implications of recent U.S. Treasury actions under the FEND Off Fentanyl Act. The session, featuring Lowenstein's Robert...more

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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

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Chapter 15 Ruling by New York Bankruptcy Court Recognizes Debtor's "Synthetic" Restructuring

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Judge Michael Wiles of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision earlier this year that had the effect of recognizing under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code an English Scheme of...more

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EEUU denuncia barreras comerciales en México a pesar del T-MEC en su informe 2025

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La Oficina del Representante Comercial de Estados Unidos (Office of the United States Trade Representative o USTR) publicó el 31 de marzo de 2025, su Informe de Estimaciones Nacionales de Comercio 2025 (National Trade...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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Reglas Generales de Comercio Exterior para 2025 en México

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Fueron publicadas en el Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF) el 30 de diciembre de 2024, la versión de las nuevas Reglas Generales de Comercio Exterior (RGCE), las cuales entraron en vigor el 1 de enero de 2025 en México....more

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The Trifecta: What to Expect from a Second Trump Administration and a Republican Congress

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Republicans have swept the 2024 elections, returning Donald Trump to the White House as the 47th President and flipping the Senate to a Republican majority. Having narrowly maintained control of the House of Representatives,...more

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Legal Reform on Electronic Negotiable Instruments

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On March 26, 2024, a decree was published in the Mexican Federal Official Gazette amending, adding, and repealing certain provisions of the General Law on Negotiable Instruments and Credit Transactions and the General Law of...more

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Mexican Reform Regarding Electronic Negotiable Instruments

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On March 26, 2024, the President of Mexico published the reform passed by the Mexican Congress to the General Law of Negotiable Instruments and Credit Transactions (Ley General de Títulos y Operaciones de Crédito, “LGTOC”),...more

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Mexican Retirement Funds Financial Regulations Amended

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On February 16, 2024, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, through the National Commission of the Retirement Savings System (“CONSAR”), issued an amendment to the General Financial Provisions of the Retirement Savings...more

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Reforms to Financial Laws in Administrative Procedure

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On January 24, 2024, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit published in the Federal Gazette the "Decree amending, adding, and repealing various provisions of financial laws in matters of administrative procedure" (the...more

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Nuevas obligaciones de diversificación en colocación de financiamiento y revelación de información aplicable a Bancos

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El 17 de abril de 2022, la Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (la “CNBV”) publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación (“DOF”) modificaciones a las Disposiciones de Carácter General aplicables a las Instituciones de...more

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OFAC sanctions timeshare fraud network

On March 2, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions, pursuant to Executive Order 14059, against eight Mexican companies connected to timeshare fraud on behalf of the Cartel...more

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OFAC announces sanctions tied to Mexican drug cartel

On February 22, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions, pursuant to Executive Order 14059, against six Mexican nationals involved in the methamphetamine and fentanyl trade,...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Summit on Anti-Corruption & Compliance Programs - March 22nd - 23rd, Mexico City, Mexico

Hosted by American Conference Institute, the Mexico Summit on Anti-Corruption & Compliance Programs returns for another exciting year with curated programming that shines a global spotlight on anti-corruption compliance...more

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FinCEN offers suspicious activity reporting guidance for human smuggling along U.S.- Mexico border

On January 13, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert advising financial institutions on how to detect and report suspicious financial activity that may be related to human smuggling along the...more

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Eliminación de la Tasa de Interés Interbancaria de Equilibrio (TIIE) a plazos de 28, 91 y 182 días

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El Banco de México emitió un comunicado en el que anuncia que prohibirá a las entidades financieras el uso de tasas de interés de referencia para plazos mayores a 1 día hábil bancario a partir de 2024....more

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Elimination of the Interbank Equilibrium Interest Rate (TIIE) for terms of 28, 91, and 182 days

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The Mexican Central Bank issued a press release announcing that it will ban financial entities from using benchmark interest rates for terms greater than 1 banking day as of 2024....more

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Financial entities must update their financial credentials and institutional keys before the CONDUSEF

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On October 14, 2022, the CONDUSEF issued new general provisions applicable to all financial institutions in order to standardize reporting obligations, reduce deadlines, and increase the obligations of financial institutions....more

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SPEI 2.0 – New Regulation for Indirect Participants

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New rules the Mexican electronic-transfer system known as SPEI were published on March 23, 2022 affecting fintech companies and smaller players that indirectly connect to this system through other bigger financial...more

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Mexico: New defense procedure against inclusion in Blocked Persons List

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On March 11, 2022, a reform to the Mexican Banking Law (Ley de Instituciones de Crédito) was published in the Federal Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federación) in order to provide a new procedure for the defense of...more

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Mexico’s CNBV updates remote contracting requirements

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On Thursday, September 9, the resolutions that reform, add and repeal the general rules on the prevention and identification of operations with resources of illicit origin applicable to financial cooperative associations...more

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Regulatory update to remote onboarding procedures of various financial institutions

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On Thursday, September 9, the resolutions that reform, add and repeal the general rules on the prevention and identification of operations with resources of illicit origin applicable to financial cooperative associations...more

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