On August 28, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) subjecting certain registered investment advisers (RIAs) and exempt reporting...more
9/3/2024
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Anti-Money Laundering ,
Bank Secrecy Act ,
Customer Identification Program (CIP) ,
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FinCEN ,
Investment Adviser ,
Patriot Act ,
Popular ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Registered Investment Advisors ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
On May 13, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released a joint notice of a proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would require...more
On May 25, 2023, Gary Gensler, Chairperson of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), spoke at an Investment Company Institute leadership conference and discussed SEC proposals that address potential instability in...more
On September 27, 2022, regulators from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) handed out over $1.8 billion in fines to financial institutions in connection with...more
10/6/2022
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Broker-Dealer ,
CFTC ,
Commercial Electronic Messages ,
Electronic Communications ,
Financial Institutions ,
Fines ,
Investment Adviser ,
OCIE ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Technology ,
Training
On Aug. 8, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash for allegedly helping launder more than $7 billion worth of cryptocurrency over three years.1...more
9/29/2022
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ,
Declaratory Relief ,
Economic Sanctions ,
FinCEN ,
Investors ,
Money Laundering ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Statutory Authority ,
U.S. Treasury ,
Voluntary Disclosure
On May 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that defendants in SEC enforcement actions for fraud are entitled to jury trials in federal court rather than simply appearing before an SEC administrative law...more
On February 17, 2022, KT Corporation (KT, formerly known as Korea Telecom) resolved a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to corruption schemes in...more
The arduous process of FCPA compliance requires risk teams to digest and cross-reference a morass of information – from internal data analysis to human representatives collecting interviews on the ground. Diligence failures...more
1/13/2022
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Compliance ,
Confidential Information ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Liability ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Parent Corporation ,
Risk Assessment ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Subsidiaries ,
Successor Liability ,
Supply Chain ,
Third-Party
On Oct. 21, Ericsson Inc. disclosed that the U.S. Department of Justice asserted that the company had "breached its obligations" under a 2019 deferred prosecution agreement "by failing to provide certain documents and factual...more
On Wednesday, May 12, 2021, Swedish telecommunications manufacturer Ericsson announced that it had reached an €80 million ($96.66 million) settlement with one of its competitors to compensate for commercial damages the...more
5/14/2021
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Compliance ,
Corruption ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Ericsson ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
White Collar Crimes