Anti-Money Laundering

The oft-used phrase goes "money is fungible," meaning it's interchangeable. Its context on a global scale for advisers is that you can manage money no ...

You'll find new focus areas - e.g., general solicitation, IPOs and crowdfunding - sprinkled among perennial items in the latest version of FINRA's annual Regulatory ...

Money-laundering schemes in the financial services industry lessen the public's faith in the integrity of the system. Therefore, NFA Members must ensure that they take ...

Last week new FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery made it official. In a speech in New York she said her agency "has been working closely ...

Signs point to a new regulation coming your way that would require investment advisers to create an anti-money laundering program. If you're feeling a sense ...

In one recent instance, a hacker posed as a client and persuaded an investment advisory firm to send three wires totaling $290,000 to an account ...

If your firm offers retail clients international money transfer services, brace for the possibility that you could be covered under a new Consumer Financial Protection ...

As the SEC prepares to release any day now new rules on general solicitation following passage of the JOBS Act (see related story), you may ...

Three years after it scuttled a proposal to require investment advisers to create an anti-money laundering program (IA Watch, Nov. 2, 2008), FinCEN appears headed ...