Fentanyl advisory for finserv firms aims to curb illicit supply chain

FinCEN move to track drug trade financial flows comes alongside new sanctions from US Treasury.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced new sanctions on leaders of a Mexican drug cartel involved in trafficking fentanyl and its pre-cursor chemicals into the US as part of a broader push to try to stem the flow of the deadly synthetic opioid.

Yellen detailed the sanctions against eight

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