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U.S. Cracks Down on Small Cash Transactions to Combat Cartels Cash Flow

On March 15, 2025, the United States unveiled a bold new strategy in its ongoing war against Mexican drug cartels, zeroing in on small-cash transactions along its southwestern border. The U.S. Treasury Department effectively slashed the reporting threshold for money service businesses operating near Mexico from thousands of dollars to just $200, aiming to disrupt […]

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U.S. Treasury Officially Suspends Corporate Transparency Act. What’s Next?

The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced a surprising decision to suspend the long-awaited enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), an anti-money laundering law targeting potential bad actors hiding behind certain classes of business ownership across America. The move is seeing early criticism from financial analysts and even the very entities that were meant to […]

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On the RADAR: Crypto Update

FTX Begins Repaying Customers Over Two Years After Collapse More than two years after the dramatic collapse of once-prominent cryptocurrency exchange FTX, some of its slighted customers have begun to receive re-payments for their lost investments. In October of 2024, a bankruptcy judge approved FTX’s initial re-organization plan that became effective on January 3rd, 2025. […]

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