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3.1KSecurity & FraudFinCEN Calls For Private Sector Innovation
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is launching an initiative called the FinCEN Innovation Hours Program, as a call to private sector...
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2.5KCryptocurrencyFinCEN Issues Guidance On Virtual Currencies
In response to questions by law enforcement, financial institutions and regulators, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued guidance for companies and...
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4.2KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: FinCEN Penalizes P2P Currency Exchanger; Binance Announces Its Own Blockchain
A new report has found that ransomware payments increased nearly 90 percent in the first quarter of the year over the previous...
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11.4KAMLDeep Dive: How To Improve Existing AML/KYC Requirements
The following Deep Dive examines how the 2008 financial meltdown paved the way for existing AML/KYC practices, and how FIs can work...
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4.6KRegulationShutdown Impacting FinTech Firms, Financial Regulations
Count the FinTech sector — and regulation of that sector — among those impacted by the government shutdown that has roiled Washington...
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4.9KBank RegulationTaking On Financial Crime With Tech, CCOs Must ‘Abandon Fear’
Multiple regulators issued a joint statement encouraging banks to embrace innovation when it comes to battling financial crime. In an interview with...
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6.5KInnovationBridging Banking Gaps For Cannabis Companies
More banks than ever are providing services to the cannabis industry, but a banking gap remains as cash still is king. Green...
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4.6KRegulationFinCEN Tightens Real Estate Cash-Buyer Reporting Threshold
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that it has issued revised Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs), which will now require U.S. title...
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4.4KSecurity & FraudFinCEN: US Banks Should Be Wary Of Nicaragua Assets
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said Thursday (October 4) that U.S. financial institutions are at increased risk that proceeds from Nicaragua may...
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7.6KBankingMassachusetts Credit Union Gets Into Cannabis Banking
A credit union (CU) is now the first financial institution (FI) in Massachusetts to offer banking services to recreational marijuana companies. GFA...
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3.1KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: India Considers Crypto For Financial Transactions; Bitcoin Makes Up Half Of Crypto Market
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in China is seeking to double down on its efforts to make a fertile...
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4.2KRegulationFinCEN Eyes Cryptocurrency Amid 1,500 Monthly Complaints
1,500 complaints about suspicious activity per month. That’s the tally that FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco told a conference last week that FinCEN,...
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6.4KRegulationMay’s Days See CDD And GDPR Take Effect
May 11 marked a watershed moment of sorts when, this past Friday, the final customer due diligence rule via the Financial Crimes...
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4.4KBank RegulationCDD Rule Becomes Official
The deadline cometh. Today (May 11) is the day the final rule, served up by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), takes effect. The...
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7.9KBank RegulationGIACT: Beneficial Ownership Compliance: Ready But Mostly Not
May 11 is basically here, with new Customer Due Diligence rules likely to send ripples, if not shockwaves, across the FI landscape. As...
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3.7KRegulationTrulioo GM: FinCen, Technology And ID’ing Beneficial Owners
Customer due diligence rules are changing via FinCEN, with a focus on identifying and monitoring beneficial owners. Trulioo GM Zac Cohen notes...
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4.1KInternationalLatvia’s Central Bank Rocked By Bribery, North Korean Sanction Violations
Latvia’s banking system is facing more issues. Not only did one bank have to request emergency support after U.S. officials accused it...
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4.0KData DiveMissing The Podium Edition: US Bank, SoFi And Bitcoin On Cards
Not everyone gets a trophy, an inevitable truth discovered by the U.S. Olympic team in Pyeongchang — at least so far. It’s not been...
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8.5KBank RegulationUS Bank Fined $613M For AML Violations
U.S. Bank was slapped with a $185 million civil penalty for what the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in coordination with the...
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10.8KNewsCourt Rules On Anti-Money Laundering Accountability
A court ruling has found that compliance officers, among other executives, can be held responsible for anti-money laundering controls or lack thereof,...
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It’s Official: Microsoft Is Licensed To Do Payments
Microsoft has officially entered the world of payments. The Windows software giant has received its first money transmitter license from the state...
- International
Bank Group Asks For More Leeway To Fight Money Laundering
The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) should let banks share their reports of suspected money-laundering activity with their foreign branches...
