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The number of parties suing the federal government for newly requiring money services branches operating in certain regions near the U.S. border with Mexico to flag deposits, withdrawals, exchanges of currency, or other payment or transfers of more than $200 will likely grow, Western Union's compliance chief told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. Last month, the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, directed MSBs in 30 ZIP codes across California and Texas to lower their threshold for filing currency transaction reports from $10,000 to $200 under a new geographic targeting order, or GTO, designed to tackle the finances of Mexican drug...