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IR Global

Understanding FinCEN’s Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order for Money Service Businesses

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On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) aimed at Money Service Businesses (MSBs)[1]. This order is designed to enhance the monitoring and...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FinCEN Joins the Government-Wide Pursuit of Cartels

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On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) specifically aimed at combatting Mexico-based cartels and other criminals along the southwest border of the United...more

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Using A Service To File A Beneficial Ownership Information Report? Be Sure To Read The Small Print

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It cannot be gainsaid that the Corporate Transparency Act has been a major headache for millions of business entities.  The CTA is part of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FinCEN Reports Check Fraud Amounting to $688 Million Over Six Month Period

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued last month an in-depth report on check fraud stemming from mail theft (“Report”).  This is a pernicious and expanding problem.  The Report follows upon a joint alert...more

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FinCEN Issues Proposed Rulemaking Aimed at Strengthening and Modernizing AML Programs Across Multiple Industries

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On July 3, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) as part of a broader initiative to “strengthen, modernize, and improve” financial institutions’ anti-money...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

FinCEN Proposes AML Compliance Obligations for Non-Financed Real Estate Transactions

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Following consideration of comments received from an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, on February 16, 2024, FinCEN issued a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that for the first time would require non-financed...more

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP

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

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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

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FinCEN Proposes New Residential Real Estate Reporting Requirements

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On February 7, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on certain US residential real estate transactions (“2024 NPRM”). The 2024 NPRM...more

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Enhancing Transparency in Real Estate: FinCEN's New Reporting Requirements for Non-Financed Transfers

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On February 7, 2024Real Estate Contract FinCEN issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would require certain professionals involved in real estate closings and settlements to report information to FinCEN about...more

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Small Business Owners: New Federal Reporting Requirements Start January 1

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Beginning January 1, 2024, most small businesses in the United States will have to report information about the people who own and control the business to the federal government. This new reporting rule was established by...more

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FinCEN Issues Final CTA BOI Access Rules, Heralded by YouTube Video

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This week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued the much-anticipated final rule (“Final Rule”) under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) regarding access to beneficial ownership information (“BOI”)...more

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FinCEN Proposes New Regulation To Enhance Transparency In Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing And Combat Terrorist Financing

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Summary of What Has Happened and What Is Yet to Come - On 19 October 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), pursuant to...more

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FinCEN proposes new recordkeeping and reporting rule for convertible virtual currency mixing

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On October 19, 2023, The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) taking aim at convertible virtual currency (CVC) mixing transactions,...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Agencies and Regulators Focus on AML Compliance for Cryptocurrency Industry

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This year, regulators, supported by a slate of new legislation, have focused more of their efforts on AML violations and compliance deficiencies than ever before. As we have written about in the "AML Enforcement Continues to...more

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Introduction aux lois canadiennes sur les sanctions - août 2021

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Le Canada, comme d’autres grands pays, dispose d’une vaste gamme de sanctions économiques et financières à l’égard d’États étrangers et de leurs ressortissants, de même que de diverses organisations terroristes. Puisqu’à...more

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A Primer on Canadian Sanctions Legislation - August 2021

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Canada, like other major jurisdictions, has a broad range of economic and financial sanctions targeting foreign states and their nationals, as well as various terrorist organizations. Given that Canada is in many ways a...more

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A Primer on Canadian Sanctions Legislation - April 2021

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Canada, like other major jurisdictions, has a broad range of economic and financial sanctions targeting foreign states and their nationals, as well as various terrorist organizations. Given that Canada is in many ways a...more

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IRS CI Highlights International Efforts to Tackle Cryptocurrency Abuse, Money Laundering and Tax Evasion

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ABA Tax Fraud Panel to Discuss IRS CI and Crypto Criminals - The Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS CI) has made it clear that it is focusing on the abuse of digital currencies to further tax evasion,...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

The “J5” is on to Cryptocurrencies

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued a “call to action” for countries to do more to tackle enablers of tax crimes. The result of this “call to action” was the establishment of an...more

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Manafort Indictment Alleges High-End International Money Laundering and Tax Fraud Involving Offshore Accounts

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As the world now knows, an indictment against Paul Manafort, Jr., a former campaign chairperson for now-President Donald Trump, and Manafort’s associate, Richard Gates III, was unsealed yesterday. ...more

Blank Rome LLP

Justice Department’s First FATCA Prosecution Yields Guilty Plea

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On May 9, 2016, the Justice Department announced that Gregg R. Mulholland, a dual U.S. and Canadian citizen and owner of an offshore broker-dealer and investment management company based in Panama and Belize, pleaded guilty...more

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FinCEN Issues Geographic Targeting Order Focused on Money Laundering in L.A.’s Fashion District

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In the latest development in a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) targeting alleged money laundering activities in Los Angeles’ garment trade, the Financial Crimes...more

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