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Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP

OECD Recommendations and U.S. Anti-Corruption Strategy Show U.S. Should Award Whistleblowers who Report to Media

Both the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption recognize that the news media plays a vital role in the detection of bribery and other acts of corruption...more

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DOJ to Develop New Whistleblower Program to Augment Existing Federal Whistleblower Programs

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Last week Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will soon begin a pilot program to reward whistleblowers who alert prosecutors to significant corporate misconduct. The goal of...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Banking and Consumer Regulatory Digest - October 2023

The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically focusing on:...more

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP

Treasury and FinCEN are Taking the New AML Law Seriously

When President Biden signed the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Whistleblower Improvement Act on December 29th, 2022, the Treasury Department had its work cut out for them. In the shadow of the highly successful Securities and...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

U.S. Whistleblower Updates: Record Breaking Awards and a New FinCEN Whistleblower Program

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently awarded approximately $36 million to a whistleblower who was culpable in the wrongful conduct and delayed reporting information to the agency for five years. The...more

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FinCEN’s New Whistleblower Program: Global Implications

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Modernizing FinCEN’s Whistleblower Program Under the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 - INTRODUCTION - Reporting on multiple international money-laundering schemes last year brought public focus to the anti-money...more

Law Matters

Loopholes Doom Money Laundering Anti-Retaliation Law

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A perspective from leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn...more

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Treasury’s New Bank Secrecy Act Whistleblower Program

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In perhaps the last major legislative action under this presidential administration, on New Year’s Day 2021, Congress passed—over President Trump’s veto—what could be the most significant anti-money laundering (AML) statute...more

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Major Changes in AML Compliance and Enforcement – Whistleblower Provisions

2020 was a most significant year in anti-corruption enforcement, from Airbus SE to Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and numerous matters in between. Further, there were two significant pieces of information from the US government...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - Russian

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – U.S. Agencies Decline to Prosecute Teradata for Alleged FCPA Violations – On February 26, 2018, Teradata Corporation, an Ohio-based enterprise software database management company,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - Chinese

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – U.S. Agencies Decline to Prosecute Teradata for Alleged FCPA Violations – On February 26, 2018, Teradata Corporation, an Ohio-based enterprise software database management company,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - February 2018

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – U.S. Agencies Decline to Prosecute Teradata for Alleged FCPA Violations – On February 26, 2018, Teradata Corporation, an Ohio-based enterprise software database management company,...more

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SEC Examiners Focus on Investment Adviser and Broker-Dealer Compliance With Whistleblower Rules

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Last week, the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued a Risk Alert regarding examinations of investment adviser and broker-dealer registrants' compliance with key whistleblower provisions...more

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Financial Services Weekly News - August 2015 #3

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Regulatory Developments - FinCEN Rules Digital Precious Metal Certificates Provider is a Money Transmitter: On Aug. 14 FinCEN issued a ruling applying its virtual currency rules to an e-precious metals company. The...more

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