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FinCEN proposed new reporting regulations "to require certain persons involved in real estate closings and settlements to submit reports and keep records on identified non-financed transfers of residential real property to specified legal entities and trusts on a nationwide basis." The new rule is aimed at targeting transfers deemed to be high-risk for money laundering.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Elizabeth Rosenberg highlighted areas of increasing concern for AML/CFT policymakers: the hiding of ownership of assets managed by investment advisers and the lack of regulation over the non-financed segment of the real estate market.

FinCEN renewed its Geographic Targeting Orders requiring U.S. title insurance companies to collect and report beneficial ownership information for certain residential real estate purchases.