The Treasury secretary’s recent Senate testimony coming down on cryptocurrencies is misguided. Regulations should require building better blockchain technology at the banks.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and other regulatory agencies confirmed that the recent legalization of the substance eases banks' anti-money-laundering requirements.
The 2020 elections and a potential new chair of the Senate Banking Committee in the next Congress could put a deadline on passage of a bill to ease a key anti-money-laundering requirement for banks.
Beneficial-ownership legislation is within the banking industry’s reach, but the prospect of new regulatory burdens for small businesses is forcing lawmakers to choose sides.
Fincen and others say third parties are proving to be treasure chests for crooks who create synthetic identities, but aggregators argue they help detect risk banks can’t see.
Though a draft has been circulating since this summer, eight senators on Thursday officially released a bill to require companies to disclose their true owners at incorporation.
