Reporting Requirements, Money Services Business, Financial Institutions

Exam Time: Understanding Exam Ratings

Ankura on 5/23/2025

It is inevitable that your Money Service Business (MSB) will eventually receive a much-anticipated (or in some instances, much-dreaded) Exam Engagement letter from one or more states. MSBs licensed in 40 or more states meet...more

FinCEN Issues Geographic Targeting Order to Require Certain Money Services Businesses to File CTRs for Smaller Transactions

K&L Gates LLP on 3/20/2025

On 11 March 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) to require money services businesses (MSBs) located in specified zip codes of California and Texas to file currency...more

Scared Of Your Clients’ Involvement With Cryptocurrency?

McGlinchey Stafford on 5/28/2021

Cryptocurrency, and its most-noted asset Bitcoin, has been breaking into the mainstream press. While most lawyers have heard terms like “blockchain” and probably even know a few people who have been deeply interested in the...more

FinCEN Looks to Rein In Cryptocurrency Transactions

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/15/2021

A new proposal would subject financial institutions and exchanges to onerous recordkeeping and reporting requirements for certain digital currency transactions. In a surprise release in the waning days of the Trump...more

FinCEN Announces Civil Monetary Penalty for Virtual Currency Exchanger

Burr & Forman on 4/23/2019

On April 18, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced its first enforcement action against a peer-to-peer virtual currency exchanger....more

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Revised Regulations to PCMLTFA

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 6/13/2018

The wait is over. On June 9, 2018, the Department of Finance (Department) released the long-awaited amendments to the regulations to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) (Revised...more