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FinCEN’s check fraud alert: Ten red flags you should know

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Fraudsters will steal personal checks, business checks, tax refund checks, and checks related to government assistance programs. Fraud, including check fraud, is the largest source of illicit proceeds in the United States and is one of the anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) National Priorities.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Europe Plans To Release Drafts Of Digital Regulation Legislation; UN Initiative To Tax Big Tech In Developing Nations Gains Momentum

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Regulation. The Digital Services Act will be one of the regulations, which Vestager said will revise the eCommerce Directive and will make digital services take additional responsibility for contending with “illegal content and dangerous products.”. The Digital Markets Act is a second set of regulations. and Facebook Inc.

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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

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Before the September 11 attacks, the BSA did not refer to terrorist financing as part of the illicit activity that law enforcement was concerned with preventing. BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. BSA Rules and Regulation.

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Who Wins When China Tightens Its Cross-Border Grip?

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The government is] interested in protecting the content that the Chinese people see, policing its national security and favoring indigenous giants, such as Huawei, Alibaba and Tencent,” Daniel Rosen, founding partner of China-specialized economic advisory firm Rhodium Group, told The New York Times. percent tax.

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Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs

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We’ve been advocating for grants even before the PPP was passed, knowing it would be problematic,” Arensmeyer said in a Forbes interview , referring to the Paycheck Protection Program being implemented by the Small Business Administration as part of the federal stimulus effort. And there was no provision in the law to prevent that.

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CFPB Issues Remittance Transfer Consent Order

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On December 21, 2020, the CFPB issued its third consent order involving violations of Subpart B of Regulation E, 12 C.F.R. §§ 1005.30 Failed to refund transaction fees and taxes when funds were not made available to the designated recipient by the availability date on the receipt. Section 1005.33(d) Section 1005.33(c)(2)(ii)

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Too Big to Bail Out?

Banking 2020

That refers to the perfect storm that drenched the entire system faced in 2008, and the occasional downpours specific institutions have faced since then. regulators have already put in place similar strictures for the eight largest (you might say systemically important) banks. Insights bail out economy federal restructuring tax'

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