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The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control assessed a $7.6 million penalty against Poloniex, a Massachusetts-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange, for handling $15 million worth of transactions from parties in Cuba, Iran, Syria and other off-limits jurisdictions. More A new, Federal Reserve-administered system that will facilitate nearly instantaneous payments and settlements after going online in July will give U.S. financial institutions significantly less time to detect and stop fraudulent transactions, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More U.S. and EU authorities arrested nearly 300 suspects and seized $53 million worth of cash and digital assets linked to Monopoly Market, a darknet website that facilitated drug...