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The ESAs intend to start working on the mandate in 2017 and expect to be able to submit final draft RTS by December 31, 2017.

Approximately 10 years ago, Oppenheimer was fined $2.8 million by FinCEN for violations of the BSA.

On December 1, 2015, the New York State Department of Financial Services proposed a new anti-terrorism and anti- money laundering regulation, known as the Transaction Monitoring and Filtering Program regulation.

Texas and Colorado banking regulators entered into a joint consent order with a money transmitter over alleged deficiencies in its anti-money laundering compliance program, including late federal reporting, inadequate agent monitoring, and customer information safeguard failures. The company agreed to pay $200,000 in penalties and retain an independent compliance consultant without admitting the allegations.

On July 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that it is delaying the effective date of the investment adviser anti-money laundering rule (IA AML Rule) for two years from 1 January 2026 to 1 January 2028.

New paragraph 1-bis of article 23 of Legislative Decree 21 November 2007, no. 231, introduced by article 18 of Legislative Decree 19 September 2012, no. 169, provides that, in the event the addressees of anti-money laundering law are unable to comply with the customer due diligence obligation, they must return money, securities and other financial means to the customer at issue on account(s) indicated by the latter.

The DOJ filed a civil complaint for the forfeiture of funds from several "front" companies allegedly involved in a scheme to launder U.S. dollars on behalf of sanctioned North Korean banks.

Six U.S. federal executive departments collectively issued an Advisory on the risks associated with doing business in Burma.

Other topics discussed at the plenary meeting include de-risking in the financial system and new FATF webpages discussing various AML/CFT compliance topics.

The SEC faulted the broker-dealer for allegedly both failing to file SARs and omitting important information from the SARS it did file.

Arnold & Porter announces the addition of Eric Snyder, a veteran trial lawyer with 16 years of federal prosecution experience, to its White Collar Defense & Investigations practice in New York. With extensive expertise spanning healthcare fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, and securities fraud, Snyder brings a distinguished track record of over 30 jury trials and multiple Second Circuit appeals.

A national bank pleaded guilty to criminal charges for concealing anti-money laundering ("AML") violations and obstructing the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's ("OCC") ...

According to the Los Angeles Times, Mexican officials have estimated the amount of laundered money in the Mexican economy at $50 billion annually—three percent of the legitimate Mexican economy.

Bill outlines the classic three-stage framework for money laundering – placement, layering, and integration – and emphasizes that these stages can occur through financial institutions, shell companies, real estate transactions, and other seemingly lawful channels.

FinCEN adopted a final rule that will make current AML, Customer Identification Program and beneficial ownership rules equally applicable to all types of banks.

FinCEN described the relief as strictly limited to rollovers, renewals, modifications or extensions of any of the above occurring on or after May 11, 2018.

FinCEN advised financial institutions on recent updates to the Financial Action Task Force ("FATF") list of jurisdictions with strategic AML and Combating the Financing of Terrorism ("AML/CFT") deficiencies.

FINRA proposed amending its existing anti-money laundering ("AML") requirements to explicitly require ongoing customer due diligence, consistent with the May 11, 2018 effective date...