The U.S. Treasury Department released its 2024 national illicit finance strategy, which outlines the U.S. government’s goals, objectives, and priorities to disrupt and prevent illicit f...
In a joint rulemaking, FinCEN and the SEC issued a proposed rule that would require certain investment advisers to establish risk-based customer identification programs.
The U.S. Congress attached a range of unrelated measures to the recent military aid package to Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel extending the statute of limitations for sanctions violations, r...
A proposed rule from Treasury continues CFIUS’s focus on investigation and enforcement and tightens the timelines when negotiating mitigation agreements with CFIUS.
The DOJ’s National Security Division recently updated its voluntary self-disclosure policy, highlighting the importance of sanctions and export control-related due diligence in M&A tran...
The U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama held that the Corporate Transparency Act is unconstitutional and permanently enjoined enforcement of the Act against the plaintiffs ?...
FinCEN issued its long-awaited proposed rule that would impose AML/CFT obligations on certain investment advisers, such as requirements to implement and maintain an AML/CFT compliance pro...
FinCEN announced its long-awaited proposed rule targeting illicit finance in the real estate sector and, on the same day, Treasury released its 2024 national illicit finance risk assessme...
The United States continues to expand sanctions targeting Russia. A new executive order authorizes OFAC to impose secondary sanctions on non-U.S. financial institutions that facilitate tr...
FinCEN released its long-awaited final rule governing access to the national database of beneficial ownership information. The final rule addresses some of the most significant concerns t...