News & Analysis as of October 19, 2024

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury charged with detecting and combatting illegal activity within the financial system. FinCEN detects evidence of money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes by collecting, monitoring, and analyzing financial transaction data. Such data is disseminated to both domestic and international law enforcement agencies. less -

What Would Cannabis Rescheduling Mean for Lending and Payments Legality?

McGlinchey Stafford on 8/28/2024

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s proposal to reschedule cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) has generated considerable buzz across business sectors, including for the...more

Marijuana & Banking: What’s the Hold Up? Pt. 1 – Conflicting Legal Landscapes

McGlinchey Stafford on 3/31/2023

Today, nearly four-fifths of the United States have regulated medical marijuana markets. Nearly half of the United States, consisting of twenty-one states along with Washington, D.C. and Guam, have acted to legalize...more

Beneficial Ownership Information Final Rule Affects Banks and Credit Unions

Harris Beach PLLC on 10/20/2022

On September 29, 2022, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued the first of three final rules implementing the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership information (BOI) requirements. The aim of the...more

Client Alert: Beneficial Ownership Reporting at the Federal Level effective January 1, 2024

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 10/12/2022

Most entities formed or registered to do business in the U.S. will, beginning January 1, 2024, be required to self-report beneficial ownership information to the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network...more

Decline in Number of Banks and Credit Unions Banking Marijuana-Related Businesses Appears to Have Leveled Off

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/8/2021

In its most recent Marijuana Banking Update, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) stated that the decline in the number of banks and credit unions actively banking marijuana-related businesses (MRBs) in the...more

Banking for Marijuana Businesses on the Rise

Foster Garvey PC on 7/7/2017

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCen”) issued a Marijuana Related Business update in June with data from the first quarter of 2017. FinCen reports that the number of depository institutions that are actively...more

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