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US Banking Agencies Increase Their Focus on Crypto-Assets
The primary US bank regulators - the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC - issued a joint statement on crypto-asset risks to banking organizations. The...
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The primary US bank regulators - the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC - issued a joint statement on crypto-asset risks to banking organizations. The...
7 min read
This episode originally aired on July 29, 2022.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently issued updated Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach to...
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This episode originally aired on October 7, 2022.
This week, the Basel Institute on Governance published its 2022 AML Index. The index assesses...
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The US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have announced a resolution of charges against Danske Bank. The Bank pled...
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It has been a busy week for US government pronouncements on national security and terrorism. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security...
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The White House has published a Fact Sheet: Summit for Democracy: Progress in the Year of Action. It discusses activities taken since the first...
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This episode originally aired on June 17, 2022.
FinCEN has issued updated guidance on Elder Financial Exploitation (EFE). The new Advisory looks at...
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This week The US Treasury issued a report, Assessing the Impact of New Entrant Non-bank Firms on Competition in Consumer Finance Markets. The report...
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The US Treasury and its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) have announced new sanctions against a number of individuals and entities involved in...
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The Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued its Ransomware Trendsfor the second half of 2021. John and Elliot look at the process...
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies has released a report on Mitigating Financial Access Challenges. The report focuses on ways to...
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Homeland Security Investigations has launched Operation Boiling Point an initiative to curb organized retail crime and cargo theft. The effort brings...
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This week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued enforcement actions against...
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This week, the Basel Institute on Governance published its 2022 AML Index. The index assesses countries’ money laundering and terrorist financing...
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The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued updated FAQs clarifying the regulations about people in the US sending electronic remittances...
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John and Elliot discuss several topics from this week: a recent ProPublica article on human traffickers forcing victims into cyberscamming, recent...
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The US House Financial Services Committee held a hearing this week on the availability of financial services in the Caribbean region. The hearing...
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A recent essay on Lawfare caught John and Elliot’s attention. The authors reviewed the costs and funding sources of the January 6th insurrection and...
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The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report to Congress. The report focused on how the US Department of Justice is...
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The Wolfsberg Group, an association of 13 global banks, this week issued a guidance document on requests for information (RFI). The focus of the...
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The Federal Reserve has issued additional information for banking organizations about crypto-asset-related activities. It is contained in Supervisory...
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The US Department of Justice has announced that a federal grand jury has indicted representatives of Electronic Transactions Systems Corporation, a...
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John and Elliot chat about an interesting Op/Ed piece that appeared in The Washington Post this week. The author, an expert in international law,...
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The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently issued updated Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach to the Real Estate Sector. The updated guidance...
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FATF (the Financial Action Task Force) has issued a report: Partnering in the Fight Against Financial Crime – Data Protection, Technology and Private...
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The US House of Representatives is acting on proposed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, including the ENABLERS Act. John and...
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The presidency of the Financial Action Task Force has recently transferred to Singapore and the new president has issued the organizational...