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FinCEN Announces New Digital Innovation Officer/Deputy Director

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Mosier returns to FinCEN from Chainalysis, the digital currency analytics, investigations and compliance company, where he served as chief technical counsel. Before FinCEN , Mosier was associate director of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). He previously served as FinCEN’s chief of strategic advancement.

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Two Chinese Nationals Charged With Laundering $100M In Crypto

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and unsealed on Monday (March 2), Tian Yinyin and Li Jiadong allegedly laundered cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers between December 2017 and April 2019. The Chinese men were charged with money laundering conspiracy and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. The DOJ also said that the U.S.

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FinCen Director On Why Casino Cooperation Is Central To Fighting Financial Crime 

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Blanco took to the stage at the 12th Annual Las Vegas Anti-Money Laundering Conference yesterday (August 13). The second was the rise of cryptocurrency (though during his remarks he tended to refer to it as Convertible Virtual Currency or CVC). Mobile Gaming And Digital Currency . and around the world.

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Startup Roundup: A Is For Automation

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The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing with automation, interoperability and digital currency initiatives. Why should organizations say “yes” to purchase order matching and “no” to cryptocurrencies?