The Fed’s New Money-Laundering Rule Has A Loophole Built In
The post The Fed’s New Money-Laundering Rule Has A Loophole Built In appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The Federal Reserve published a sweeping proposal to rewrite how it polices anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist-financing (AML/CFT) programs at the banks it supervises. Getty Images Somewhere between $800 billion and $2 trillion in dirty money moves through the global financial system every year, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime — and authorities manage to freeze less than 1% of it. Banks are the pipeline. The 2020 “FinCEN Files” leak, which exposed $2 trillion in transactions flagged internally as suspicious yet processed anyway, made that uncomfortably clear. So when the Federal Reserve published a sweeping proposal on July 7 to rewrite how it polices anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist-financing (AML/CFT) programs at the banks it supervises, the stakes were never in question. What’s in question is whether the rule actually raises the bar — or quietly