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Phoenix-Like: the Corporate Transparency Act Returns, Reporting Requirements Due March 21, 2025

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The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is back on. A federal judge in Texas has lifted the preliminary injunction issued in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, 6:24-cv-00336 (E.D. Tex.), which had previously prevented the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Return of the CTA: FinCEN Confirms that Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements are Back in Effect with a New...

On February 19, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that beneficial ownership information reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) are back in effect with a new...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Treasury Announces Renewed Push for Investment Adviser AML Rules

The United States Department of the Treasury has announced that it is working to address what it perceives as money laundering risks associated with investment advisers. Specifically, the agency asserts that absent consistent...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

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

“Attachés” de la Tesorería, Enlaces de Unidades de Inteligencia Financiera Extranjera e Instituciones Financieras Extranjeras

La Ley ALD del 2020 (“AML Act of 2020”) incluye la creación de los “Attachés del Tesoro” (SEC. 6106, designados por el Departamento del Tesoro de los Estados Unidos) y los “Enlaces de la Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Treasury Attachés, Foreign Financial Intelligence Unit Liaisons and Foreign Financial Institutions

The AML Act of 2020 includes the creation of  “Treasury Attachés” (SEC. 6106, appointed by the US Treasury Department) and the “Foreign Financial Intelligence Unit Liaisons” (SEC. 6108, appointed by FinCEN) to be stationed...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Bancos Extranjeros y el Nuevo Alcance de Brazo Largo del Tesoro de los EE. UU y el “DOJ”

Antes de la aprobación de la LEY AML del 2020 (“AML ACT of 2020”), el Departamento del Tesoro de los EE. UU. y el Departamento de Justicia de los EE. UU. (“DOJ”) tenían la autoridad para citar (“subpoena”) a los bancos...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Foreign Bank and the New Longer Arm of the US Treasury and DOJ

Before passage of the AML ACT of 2020 (the “ACT”), The US Department of the Treasury, and the US Justice Department (DOJ) had US legal authority to subpoena foreign banks with US correspondent accounts for related US records...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The SEC and SARs

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The Commission periodically has filed enforcement actions against broker-dealers for failing to file SARs - suspicious activity reports - typically centered on a failure to file reports regarding microcap issuers. Those...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Recent guidance brings OFAC in line with domestic and global compliance trends

On May 2, 2019, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued guidance titled “A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments” (Guidance), providing direction regarding what OFAC considers to...more

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