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Blank Rome LLP

Navigating New Compliance Challenges for Financial Institutions and Payment Processors: The U.S. Treasury’s Enhanced Terrorist...

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In a significant move to combat illicit financial activities focused on cartels, the U.S. government has intensified its scrutiny of cross-border payments, particularly those linked to Mexico. This development follows the...more

BakerHostetler

Weekly Blockchain Blog - April 2025

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U.S. Financial Services Firms Announce Digital Asset Initiatives - A major U.S. financial services company and operator of global financial exchanges and clearinghouses recently announced an agreement with the issuer of the...more

Mintz Edge

New for 2024: Compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act Necessary for Many Mintz Client

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Clients with Limited Liability Companies, Corporations, and Other Entities Likely Impacted - Reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are in effect beginning January 1, 2024. Under the CTA,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Hamas, Terrorist Financing, and Cryptocurrency

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The October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel by Hamas have re-focused U.S. government efforts to identify and counter funding streams for Hamas and terrorist activity in general – including, in particular, through the use of...more

Torres Trade Law, PLLC

New Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Law Makes Economic Sanctions Violations Reportable

To more effectively counter transnational corruption and economic sanctions evasion, recent changes to the U.S. anti-money laundering (“AML”) whistleblower regime expand and reinforce whistleblower protections and rewards in...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

Compliance measures to address sanctions enforcement: ‘the new FCPA’

In line with the Biden administration’s declaration last year that anticorruption is a “core United States national security interest,” sanctions evasion enforcement rapidly has become a core priority for the Department of...more

Perkins Coie

US Treasury Highlights Anti-Money Laundering Priorities in 2022 Illicit Finance Strategy

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), on May 13, 2022, published its 2022 National Illicit Finance Strategy (the 2022 Strategy)—a comprehensive statement of the agency’s key priorities, goals, and plans for...more

Goodwin

FinCEN Warns Against Evasion of Russian Sanctions

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In this Issue. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published an alert warning financial institutions of possible efforts to evade U.S.-imposed sanctions on Russia and Belarus; the U.S. Department of the Treasury...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Treasury’s Study Discusses Financial Crimes and NFTs

On February 4, the Department of the Treasury published a study on the facilitation of money laundering and terrorist financing through the art trade. Among other considerations, the report discussed the risks of financial...more

ArentFox Schiff

Investigations Newsletter: Millennial Couple Faces Twenty Years in Prison for Largest DOJ Bitcoin Seizure in History

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Millennial Couple Faces Twenty Years in Prison for Largest DOJ Bitcoin Seizure in History - On February 7, 2022, authorities arrested a husband and wife in their 30s, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, accused of...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Scared Of Your Clients’ Involvement With Cryptocurrency?

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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

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