AML For Broker-Dealers: Takeaways From SEC Enforcement

By Jesse Morton (October 18, 2017, 9:34 AM EDT) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has made it abundantly clear over the last several years that anti-money laundering is one of its top examination priorities.[1] While traditionally, many other regulatory and enforcement agencies, such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Federal Reserve, have been the ones to enforce AML deficiencies, the SEC recently started regularly using Rule 17a-8 under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 as a tool to enforce AML deficiencies with broker-dealers.[2]...

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