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FinCEN began accepting reports on January 1, 2024.

WASHINGTON—During a ceremony held today at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) honored recipients of its Law Enforcement Awards Program. The program, which began in 2015, recognizes agencies that have successfully used Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data to support criminal prosecutions. The program directly supports FinCEN’s ongoing efforts to better track and measure the value of BSA reporting and associated outcomes. Senior Treasury and FinCEN leadership, as well as law enforcement officials, participated in today’s ceremony.

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is undertaking actions as part of a coordinated international effort to disrupt Russian cybercrime services. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing an order that identifies PM2BTC—a Russian virtual currency exchanger associated with Russian individual Sergey Sergeevich Ivanov (Ivanov)—as being of “primary money laundering concern” in connection with Russian illicit finance.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has submitted a notice to the Federal Register withdrawing its finding that ABLV Bank, AS (ABLV) is a financial institution of primary money laundering concern, as well as the related notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) seeking to impose special measure five pursuant to section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act (section 311).