US Executive Order “Restoring Integrity” tightens banking oversight by strengthening due diligence, identity checks, and credit risk controls to crack down on ML, fraud, and illicit cross-border finance

It requires the Treasury Department and regulators to issue guidance and strengthen Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) rules on customer due diligence, beneficial ownership verification, and transaction monitoring, with a focus on detecting fraud, money laundering, and abuse of...

US Attorney General’s Memorandum on ‘Total Elimination of Cartels and Transnational Criminal Organisations’, outlines key policy shifts, including the disbanding of the KleptoCapture Task Force

Among the changes are directives to (1) eliminate the KleptoCapture Task Force and the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative (KARI); (2) prioritize Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) investigations that are related to...