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Banks Want BSA Reporting Overhaul, Clarity on Cryptocurrency

By Valentina Pasquali

Banks and other institutions want the U.S. Treasury Department to drastically overhaul federal rules for flagging large-cash and suspicious transactions, and further clarify the anti-money laundering requirements they must follow when directly or indirectly handling cryptocurrency. Their push for a broad regulatory update came in response to a notice that Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network put forward on Dec. 15 for feedback on how best to modernize and streamline requirements stemming from the Bank Secrecy Act, or BSA, pursuant to legislation enacted in January 2021. FinCEN's 18-page request for information, or RFI, includes more than two dozen questions covering whether...

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