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U.S. banks have rejected at least 80 percent of dollar-denominated payments from Iraqi banks since November, when the Federal Reserve Bank of New York imposed stronger controls on such transactions to impede financial flows to Iran and prevent money laundering, The Wall Street Journal reported. More Sources told ACAMS moneylaundering.com that allowing companies to answer "unknown" to questions seeking to identify their beneficial owners will undermine U.S. efforts to address the involvement of legal entities in illicit finance. More Tens of millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency that passed through a Russian-affiliated exchange designated by FinCEN as a "primary money...