The U.S. Treasury Department's financial crime-fighting arm has introduced a new rule aimed at cracking down on money laundering in all-cash home purchases—but everyday buyers shouldn't be alarmed.
Scott Bessent wants the department to be ‘a gatekeeper’ on rules that force banks to monitor for illicit transactions and ...
Cash still feels like the purest form of money, a stack of notes you can hand over with no passwords, apps, or waiting for a bank transfer to clear. Yet the law treats physical currency very ...
Peter M. Skinner and Matthew L. Schwartz write: Although the government has investigated trade-based money laundering in the past, it has historically prioritized the movement of money through ...
Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are ...
Chinese nationals engaged in extensive money-laundering operations in the U.S., moving a suspected $312 billion in illicit cash over the past five years, the Treasury Department revealed Thursday. The ...