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On March 13, 2020, President Trump declared a National Emergency in response to COVID-19.[1]  FinCEN requests financial institutions affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to contact FinCEN and their functional regulator as soon as practicable if a COVID-19-affected financial institution has concern…

WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has assessed a $450,000 civil money penalty against Michael LaFontaine, former Chief Operational Risk Officer at U.S. Bank National Association (U.S. Bank), for his failure to prevent violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) during his…

WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) welcomes Michael Mosier as its new Deputy Director and Digital Innovation Officer.  As Deputy Director, Mr. Mosier oversees FinCEN’s wide-ranging work to protect the financial integrity and national security of the United States.  As…

      SIFMA 20th Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Financial Crimes Conference New York City   On behalf of FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco and the rest of the staff at FinCEN, I want to thank SIFMA for asking us to participate in SIFMA’s 20th annual AML conference.  We view it as an…