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FinCEN highlights need to modernize AML to reflect new threats

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New rulemaking is being developed to apply Bank Secrecy Act standards to stablecoin issuers and digital asset platforms.

The US Treasury’s Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN) unit is prioritizing the modernization of anti-money-laundering (AML) and countering-the-financing-of-terrorism (CFT) systems to address increased cyber-enabled fraud, changing illicit finance tactics, the proliferation of drug cartels, shadow banking, and weapons procurement, FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki told a congressional subcommittee this week.

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