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Agencies Clarify Requirements for Providing Financial Services to Hemp-Related Businesses
Providing Financial Services to Customers Engaged in Hemp-Related Businesses
FinCEN Realigns Division to Increase Strategic Capabilities

WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has announced the realignment of its Liaison Division as the Strategic Operations Division (Strategic Ops), effective November 24, 2019.  Strategic Ops will be responsible for designing and implementing FinCEN’s strategic…

Prepared Remarks of FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco at Chainalysis Blockchain Symposium

 

 

 

 

Introduction

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for that wonderful introduction.

It is great to be here with you today to discuss FinCEN, our mission, and how together – working with all of you – our…

Prepared Remarks of FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco at Chainalysis Blockchain Symposium

Kenneth A. Blanco, Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), spoke at the Chainalysis Blockchain Symposium on Friday, November 15. He addressed the issue of "regulatory clarity"; the value of Bank Secrecy Act data; FinCEN’s…

FinCEN Reissues Real Estate Geographic Targeting Orders for 12 Metropolitan Areas

WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced the renewal of its Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs) that require U.S. title insurance companies to identify the natural persons behind shell companies used in all-cash purchases of…

FinCEN Officials Visit Morehouse and Spelman Colleges

This week, FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco and staff representing several FinCEN technical professions travelled to Atlanta to speak with administrators, professors, and college students at Morehouse and Spelman, both prominent Historically Black Colleges and…

Imposition of Fifth Special Measure against the Islamic Republic of Iran as a Jurisdiction of Primary Money Laundering Concern
Treasury and State Announce New Humanitarian Mechanism to Increase Transparency of Permissible Trade Supporting the Iranian People; FinCEN identifies Iran as jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern

WASHINGTON--Today, the U.S. Departments of the Treasury and State announced a new humanitarian mechanism to ensure unprecedented transparency into humanitarian trade with Iran.  This mechanism will help the international community perform enhanced due diligence on humanitarian trade to…

Imposition of Fifth Special Measure against the Islamic Republic of Iran as a Jurisdiction of Primary Money Laundering Concern