On April 7, FinCEN announced a proposed rule that it described as a “fundamental reform” of AML/CFT program requirements applicable to banks and other financial institutions. The proposal was ...

On April 7, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would significantly revise Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) ...

Laurel Loomis Rimon examines the new rules recently issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network aimed at countering money laundering and the financing of terrorism, which were made public on ...

Fraud moves in real time — and FinCEN says financial institutions can respond the same way. New Section 314(b) guidance puts ...

Fincen just proposed the most significant reform to AML compliance in a generation, but its reporting forms are still broken, writes Jane Bell, of SAS. Of the approximately 167 million currency ...

Two lawmakers have asked the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to ensure that reducing unnecessary compliance burdens and prioritizing high-risk financial crimes in its enforcement efforts ...

A new Financial Crimes Enforcement Network anti-money-laundering rule now requires reporting for certain residential real estate transactions, particularly cash purchases and deals involving legal ...

On Aug. 4, updates with FinCEN's $125M penalty and FinCEN comments in the first, second, and sixth paragraphs. FINRA fined UBS Financial Services, part of Swiss bank UBS Group (UBS), $20M for failing ...

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on Monday assessed a $125 million civil money penalty against UBS Financial Services — the largest Bank Secrecy Act fine ever imposed on ...

In their International Criminal Law and Enforcement column, Nicholas M. De Feis and Philip C. Patterson write that although banks may lament the time and money spent on compliance with anti-money ...

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