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On January 17, 2023, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite announced revisions to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division's Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP),1 expanding...

The Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosures for Individuals (Pilot Program) on April 15, 2024.

On October 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") issued a Financial Trend Analysis ("FTA")...

When Congress overrode President Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act on January 1, 2021, it enacted the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA)

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) issued two notable documents over the past two weeks involving confidential supervisory information (CSI):

On October 19, 2018, the Financial Action Task Force published the outcomes of its plenary on October 17-19, 2018. The FATF considered key issues ...

The U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit considered testimony regarding the implications of "de-risking," ...

That is, examiners do not adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to conducting BSA/AML examinations.

On April 7, 2026, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") to fundamentally reform anti-money laundering and countering the financing...

The Bank Secrecy Act requires financial institutions to establish an anti-money laundering (AML) compliance program to prevent and detect financial crime.

For years, the United States has treated the high-value art trade as a regulatory outlier: enormous single-transaction prices...

The US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has issued new guidance alerting financial institutions to fraud schemes involving the unlawful employment of non-work authorized individuals. The advisory identifies identity theft and payroll fraud typologies, providing 18 red flags to help banks detect suspicious activity connected to Immigration Reform and Control Act violations.

In an effort to address increasing "illicit finance risks in the investment adviser industry," the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in its notice of proposed rulemaking...

On July 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced its intent to postpone the effective date...

Money laundering is no game. Yet, some games have been used for money laundering. That's what prompted Valve to announce that it would end the online sales of loot box

On August 28, 2024, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) finalized a rule that imposes new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT)...

On September 25, 2025, President Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum on Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence, accompanied by a Fact Sheet.

Stepping into new territory, on May 22, 2006, the SEC for the first time brought an enforcement action under the USA PATRIOT Act against the Los Angeles brokerage firm of Crowell, Weedon & Co. The action, which was settled, arose from Crowell, Weedon’s failure to properly document the procedures it used to verify the identity of its customers and to make and keep certain reports and records to facilitate the prevention, detection, and prosecution of international money laundering and the financ