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New Reporting Requirement for Certain Residential Real Estate Transfers

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 4/21/2025

Effective December 1, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will implement new rules for non-financed residential real estate transfers. The purpose of the rule is to increase...more

Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: A New Era of Risk for Global Businesses

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 2/6/2025

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” This directive instructs the...more

FinCEN’s Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP on 2/23/2024

To crack down on money-laundering in the U.S. residential real estate market, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has proposed new reporting requirements for certain real estate transactions. Specifically, the...more

FinCEN Looks to Regulate the Real Estate Market

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 12/16/2021

On December 6, 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to solicit comments in preparing a proposed rule that would increase transparency in the U.S....more

Real Estate and Money Laundering: FinCEN Issues Advanced Notice of Regulations for the Real Estate Industry

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/14/2021

On December 6, FinCEN announced that it was issuing an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“AMPRM”) to solicit public comment on potential requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) for certain persons involved in...more

2016 Year in Review: Money Laundering (Part One)

Ballard Spahr LLP on 2/3/2017

2016 was a busy year for developments in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the criminal money laundering statutes, forfeiture, and related issues. In part one of our year-in-review, we discuss six key...more

FinCEN Targets More Real Estate Deals for AML

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on 7/28/2016

Today, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced, effective August 28, 2016golden and continuing for 180 days, it is expanding its earlier Geographic Targeting Orders (GTO) requiring information about the...more

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