March 22, 2019
The ACAMS US Capital Chapter is pleased to partner with Global Financial Integrity, the FACT Coalition, and Transparency International for another in our series on beneficial ownership and corporate transparency.
The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition (FACT Coalition) sent a letter to the House Financial Services Committee in support of the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Act (H.R. 389). The full letter can be read below or downloaded here.
The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) sent a letter to the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy in support of the Corporate Transparency Act. The letter can be downloaded here.
It’s a new year, a new US Congress, and a new opportunity for the United States to take action to close some of the most glaring loopholes in its anticorruption and anti-money laundering (AML) framework.
The FACT Coalition joined dozens to send a letter to the Canadian Minister of Finance supporting efforts to strengthen beneficial ownership transparency and to encourage the federal government to advocate for a publicly accessible pan-Canadian company registry of beneficial owners.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan group of more than twenty state attorneys general urged Congress on Thursday to help them counter money laundering, corruption, and terror financing by passing legislation to end the incorporation of anonymous shell companies in the United States.
