FinCEN prohibited the transmission of funds by any covered financial institution via Bitzlato, a virtual currency exchange that FinCEN identified as being of a "primary money laundering concern" in connection with Russian illicit finance.
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A trust company settled SEC charges for (i) conducting securities transactions without registering as a broker-dealer and taking steps to conceal its unregistered activities, and (ii) making misleading statements regarding a service that allowed investors to create an irrevocable trust online.
Acting Comptroller Michael J. Hsu urged the development of a regulatory framework intended to discourage large banks from becoming "too-big-to-manage."
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider a pair of whistleblower-initiated False Claims Act cases accusing two pharmacy operators of billing Medicare and Medicaid programs for prescription drugs at artificially high rates while charging non-governmentally insured customers lesser prices for those same drugs.
The Federal Reserve Board published details on how it plans to conduct its "Pilot Climate Scenario Analysis" exercise and the information it hopes to gather.