On May 13, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed rules (CIP Rules) that would impose customer identification...more
5/21/2024
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Companies beware! The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a pilot program “designed to encourage voluntary self-disclosure by individual participants in certain types of criminal conduct involving corporations.” In...more
On February 13, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding a new proposed rule that would require certain investment advisers to apply anti-money...more
2/26/2024
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Registered Investment Advisors ,
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Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) ,
U.S. Treasury
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a buzzword, but a reality that is firmly on the radar of regulators and regulated firms in the US and UK. Recently, considerable investment into this area has prompted...more
2/15/2024
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Electronic Communications ,
Electronic Monitoring ,
Employee Monitoring ,
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Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
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Regular Business Communications ,
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UK
This Tuesday, April 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in U.S. v. SuperValu. SuperValu is the second – and more consequential – False Claims Act (FCA) case of the term....more
On 24 May 2022, Glencore International AG announced a series of coordinated resolutions with various international enforcements agencies including the Department of Justice (”DOJ”), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...more
6/13/2022
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CFTC ,
Conspiracies ,
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Government Investigations ,
Market Manipulation ,
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Sentencing Factors ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Settlement Negotiations ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act ,
White Collar Crimes
At the direction of the President, FinCEN is intensifying its regulation of banks and fintechs across the spectrum of the laws that it is charged with enforcing. This past June, the White House published the Memorandum on...more
7/28/2021
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Drug Trafficking ,
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Financial Crimes ,
Financial Institutions ,
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In the latest sign that the federal enforcement apparatus is slowly but surely training its sights on white-collar professionals and businesses, particularly financial services, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network...more
7/9/2021
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Yates Memorandum