On July 30, 2014, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that, if finalized, will amend the Bank Secrecy Act regulations to enhance customer due diligence (CDD) requirements imposed on financial institutions (i.e. banks, brokers and dealers in securities, mutual funds, and future commission merchants and introducing brokers in commodities). In an effort to increase financial transparency and protect the financial system from […]
