To support the ongoing effort to stop money laundering and illicit finance, the Treasury Department today issued its National Illicit Finance Strategy.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will launch a new innovation initiative to foster a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges of new technologies for enhancing Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering efforts, FinCEN Director Ken Blanco told attendees at ABA’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Conference today.

In a live interview on Bloomberg today, ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols outlined three key policy priorities that ABA is looking to in 2019.

The banking agencies, along with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, today issued a statement encouraging banks to consider, study and -- where appropriate -- implement innovative approaches to anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance.

The number of worldwide correspondent banking relationships continues to decline, according to new figures released today by the Basel, Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network today reissued its revised geographic targeting orders temporarily requiring certain U.S. title insurance companies in specificied areas to identify the individuals behind companies used to conduct high-end, all-cash real estate transactions.

Bank investments in technology can create more vulnerability to tech-savvy fraudsters.

The financial regulatory agencies and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network today issued a joint statement outlining how banks may enter into collaborative arrangements to share resources in order to more effectively manage their Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering obligations.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the financial regulatory agencies today announced an exemption from the customer identification program rules for premium finance loans made by banks to commercial customers.

For an industry caught between state and federal law, a change can’t come soon enough.