United States: Money Laundering

Recent U.S. cartel designations are fundamentally reshaping compliance requirements for American companies with operations or investments in Mexico. Partners from Holland & Knight examine how enforcement actions targeting Mexican financial institutions and agricultural supply chains are creating new legal exposure, even for organizations with established compliance programs, and discuss what enhanced due diligence measures companies must now implement to navigate cross-border business risk.

Last Friday a jury in the Southern District of Florida found former Florida congressman David Rivera guilty of failing to register after a foreign agent in connection with a $50 million deal with a Venezuelan...

U.S. enforcement priorities under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) have shifted following a June 2025 directive from the DOJ instructing the FCPA unit to refocus on conduct involving...

On April 8, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to implement the anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) and U.S. economic sanctions provisions of the GENIUS Act (the Proposed Rule).

On April 1, 2026, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to establish a formal whistleblower program under the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”). While much of the discussion has focused on what the proposed rule will do, the more fundamental question is why such a rule became necessary.

SDNY and the CFTC announced parallel criminal and civil enforcement actions against a U.S. Army soldier for insider trading on an offshore prediction market.

As part of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s efforts to modernize the U.S. anti-money laundering regulatory and supervisory framework, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued...

FinCEN proposes sweeping changes to anti-money laundering requirements for financial institutions, introducing a risk-based approach that distinguishes between program design and implementation failures while raising enforcement thresholds.

On April 10, 2026, FinCEN published the Proposed Rule to implement provisions of the AML Act and amend FinCEN regulations prescribing the minimum requirements for AML/CFT programs for a broad range...