Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: The FACT Coalition’s 2023 Year of Impact
FACT Executive Director Ian Gary reflects on the policy victories, new Coalition members, media hits, and emerging issues that defined FACT’s 2023, and turns an eye to the year ahead.
FACT Executive Director Ian Gary reflects on the policy victories, new Coalition members, media hits, and emerging issues that defined FACT’s 2023, and turns an eye to the year ahead.
Treasury begins accepting ownership information reports under the Corporate Transparency Act, the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act is signed into law, and the Biden Administration provides an update on long-awaited AML reforms for real estate and private investment markets.
FACT welcomes the release by Treasury of the final rule necessary to begin reporting under the landmark Corporate Transparency Act. The upcoming launch of Treasury’s beneficial ownership database on January 1, 2024 represents the largest U.S. anti-money laundering victory in decades.
New regulations tackling money laundering in the titanic U.S. real estate and private investment sectors are now expected in early 2024, per a fact sheet released by Treasury on the first day of this week’s UN anti-corruption conference in Atlanta.
FACT recommends that the FATF employ stronger language to encourage countries to establish enhanced beneficial ownership reporting standards for trusts and other under-regulated entities.
Read FACT’s official comment urging global governments to strengthen existing systems and multilateral cooperation on beneficial ownership transparency ahead of the 10th Conference of State Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption.