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Midweek Roundup: FinCEN Appoints Interim Director, EU Seeks to Empower AML Officers, and More

The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network appointed Himamauli Das, a consultant and former senior U.S. official, to replace Michael Mosier as acting director while the Treasury Department recruits a long-term candidate for the position, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Proposed EU guidelines would instruct financial institutions on providing anti-money laundering staff with more resources and access to their boards of directors, moneylaundering.com reported. More HSBC became the latest U.K. lender to prevent clients from making payments to Binance amid mounting global scrutiny of the cryptocurrency exchange, Cointelegraph reported. More Singaporean regulators issued their first conditional cryptocurrency license to Independent Reserve, an Australian exchange, the Financial...

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