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Can Comic Books Boost Compliance And AML Efforts?

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Those agencies include the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the National Credit Union Administration. That’s a stretch, of course.

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ECB's Lagarde: Bitcoin A Money Laundering Tool, Needs More Regulation

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Financial Enforcement Crimes Network (FinCEN), proposed a set of new rules that would boost information gathering activities tied to cryptocurrencies. FinCEN, in stats that seem to back up Lagarde’s contention, has estimated that there was $119 billion in suspicious activity in 2019 alone tied to cryptos.