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FinCEN Lowers Reporting Threshold for MSBs Near U.S.-Mexico Border to Combat Money Laundering

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On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) requiring all money services businesses (MSBs) operating within 30 specified ZIP codes near the U.S.-Mexico border...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

MSB or Not MSB? That Is the Question (for Determining Applicability of Anti-Money Laundering Rules)

Over the last 20 years, commerce, finance, and banking have become increasingly digital. Anti-money laundering (AML) regulators have found themselves catching up with the pace of technological innovation.1 As AML regulators...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New FinCEN Cryptocurrency Guidance Provides Comprehensive Overview of BSA Application to Crypto Businesses

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Some Answers — Producing Even More Questions - On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) published a comprehensive “interpretive guidance” (the “Guidance”) to “remind” businesses and individuals...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

FinCEN’s Recent MSB Guidance Also Has Important Implications for Banks

On March 11, 2016, FinCEN issued Guidance reminding MSBs and their agents of their respective AML obligations and, most importantly, reminding MSBs that they are responsible for their agents’ activities. The Guidance reminds...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Operation Chokepoint and the Brave New World of Criminal Liability - November 2014

The U.S. Department of Justice and banking regulators have stepped up the pace of criminal, civil and administrative actions against banks, payment processors, money transmitters, and other financial institutions, for...more

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