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Treasury says closing AML regulation loopholes top priority
By 
Kyle Brasseur2024-05-17T16:00:00
The Treasury Department’s efforts to eliminate regulation loopholes that help enable money laundering in the U.S. financial system will remain a top priority as part of the agency’s 2024 national illicit finance strategy.
The strategy, announced Thursday, includes four priority recommendations, chief among them being the continued operationalization of the Treasury’s previously announced rule changes aimed at improving the country’s anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework.
The three other priorities are:
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