FinCEN announced that it will not enforce reporting requirements under its residential real estate rule following the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas’s decision to...
On March 10, 2026, the Department of Justice announced its first ever Department-wide corporate enforcement policy for all criminal cases. Under the new policy, companies that self-repor...
On February 24, 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced a new policy to incentivize companies to self-report financial crimes. Companies could b...
Over the past several weeks, the post-Maduro sanctions landscape in Venezuela has begun to take shape, with tightly controlled relief focused on the Venezuelan oil industry and broad sanc...
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network continues its efforts to modernize the U.S. AML/CFT compliance framework, providing covered financial institutions excepti...
Director Margaret Ryan recently gave a speech describing her “guiding principles” and enforcement priorities. She balanced the need for toughness with a focus on fraud that harms inve...
Between October and December 2025, the SEC filed 29 actions against a combined total of 54 defendants and respondents, and the CFTC filed one case against three defendants. (These figures...
The New York State Attorney General filed civil actions against a former executive for insider trading and against his company for approving the trading plan that the executive used. Thes...
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network launched a series of high-profile measures targeting alleged government benefits fraud in Minnesota. Treasury suggested th...
