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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The Corporate Transparency Act: Key Deadline Fast Approaching and Other Recent Updates for Companies

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If your business has not yet focused on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), it is time to do so. Every entity formed or registered in the U.S. before January 1, 2024, must file beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FinCEN Issues Analysis of Increasing Elder Financial Exploitation

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) recently issued a Financial Trend Analysis (“Analysis”) focusing on patterns and trends identified in Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) data linked to Elder Financial Exploitation...more

King & Spalding

OFAC Puts Virtual Currency Industry On Notice

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Guidance Demonstrates OFAC’s Expectations for Sanctions Compliance by Cryptocurrency Industry - On October 15, 2021, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury published Sanctions...more

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Treasury Releases Guidance for the Virtual Currency Industry and Analysis on Ransomware Trends

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Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) released detailed sanctions compliance guidance for the virtual currency industry (the Guidance). The Guidance provides an overview of OFAC sanctions requirements and lists several best...more

Holland & Knight LLP

FinCEN Announces National AML/CFT Policy Priorities

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on June 30, 2021, issued national priorities for anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) policy (the Priorities), as required by the...more

Perkins Coie

Blockchain Week in Review - April 2021 #3

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The Regulation Process for FinCEN’s New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirement Launches - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on Thursday to solicit...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

MSB or Not MSB? That Is the Question (for Determining Applicability of Anti-Money Laundering Rules)

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Over the last 20 years, commerce, finance, and banking have become increasingly digital. Anti-money laundering (AML) regulators have found themselves catching up with the pace of technological innovation.1 As AML regulators...more

Snell & Wilmer

FinCEN, OFAC and the IRS Place Virtual Currencies Under a Real-World Regulatory Microscope

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) have recently stepped up the pressure on virtual currency companies. Increased regulatory scrutiny has largely taken the...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

CFTC, FinCEN, and SEC Warn of Crypto AML Enforcement

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Based on a recent regulatory statement, entities involved with cryptocurrency or digital assets should revisit their anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism obligations (AML/CFT) compliance under the...more

Perkins Coie

Blockchain Week in Review - October 2019

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U.S. Developments - U.S. Federal Regulatory Developments - CFTC, FinCEN, and SEC Leaders Release a Join Statement on Digital Assets - On October 11, 2019, the heads of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”),...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

FinCEN Publishes Guidance Pertaining to Certain Business Models Involving Convertible Virtual Currencies

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On May 9, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the US Department of the Treasury (FinCEN) issued guidance relating to how its regulations apply to certain businesses that transact in "convertible virtual currencies"...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Virtual Currency Guidance + Enforcement Actions = AML Regulators Are Watching

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A few days before thousands of blockchain industry participants poured into New York for “Blockchain Week,” the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued guidance on virtual currencies...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

New FinCEN Cryptocurrency Guidance Clarifies Applicability of Anti-Money Laundering Regulations to Virtual Currency Business...

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is the U.S. Treasury Department bureau charged with monitoring financial transactions in order to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing and...more

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