Claiborne (Clay) W. Porter
Squire Patton Boggs
Articles
2020 White Collar and Government Investigations Year in Review
European Union, Ireland, USA - January 29 2021 In 2020, the United States Department of Justice (the DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) set new benchmarks for corporate…
Chase S. Goldstein, Coates Lear, Colin R. Jennings, Elizabeth Weil Shaw, Ericka Johnson, Kevin P. McCart, Margaret E. Daum, Marisa T. Darden, Patrick Morris, Rebecca A. Worthington, Rebekah J. Poston, S. Babu Kaza, Trevor Garmey.
FinCEN and Federal Reserve Seek Comments on Proposed Amendments to the Recordkeeping and Travel Rules
USA - November 10 2020 On October 23, 2020, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the ‘‘Board’’) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes…
FinCEN Imposes First of its Kind Civil Penalty against Cryptocurrency Money Service Business
USA - November 6 2020 On October 19, 2020, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released its assessment of a $60 million civil monetary penalty against the…
Cryptocurrency Exchange and its Executives Face Allegations of Failing to Maintain an Adequate AML Program
USA - October 7 2020 Two U.S. authorities recently announced actions against four individuals and numerous entities associated with BitMEX, an online trading platform for…
Ransomware Payments can lead to Sanctions and Reporting Obligations for Financial Institutions
USA - October 6 2020 With cybercrime on the rise, two U.S. Treasury Department components, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and the Financial Crimes…
