In an administrative ruling, FinCEN clarified that broker-dealers were required to collect information when opening new accounts for customers who receive assets as the beneficiary of an estate.
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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama held the Corporate Transparency Act unconstitutional.
An international commodities trading company pled guilty and paid monetary penalties to resolve DOJ charges for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The company had been charged with bribing then-public officials of an Ecuadorian state-owned oil company to secure business advantages and contracts.
An investment adviser settled charges with the SEC for failing to timely disclose the adviser's "control" purpose, with respect to an issuer whose shares it had acquired for the account of a hedge fund that it managed.
FinCEN updated its list of Financial Action Task Force identified jurisdictions found to have strategic AML/CFT deficiencies.