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Cryptocurrency providers may have to significantly tighten scrutiny of their clients, transactions and counterparties if a recent push by the U.S. Treasury Department to boost exchanges of transactional data between financial institutions succeeds, sources told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for the past 25 years has required banks, broker dealers and other institutions to exchange the names, addresses and account numbers of the originators and beneficiaries of any transaction worth at least $3,000. This threshold would fall to $250 for international transactions under a plan FinCEN put forward Oct. 23 in partnership with the Federal Reserve. The regulators'...