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November 17, 2011 at 04:42 AM
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is drafting a proposal that would require investment advisors to establish anti-money-laundering programs and report suspicious activity.
James Freis, director of FinCEN, told bankers at an anti-money-laundering conference in Washington on Nov. 15 that his division will work with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as state regulators as it drafts the proposal. “FinCEN is currently revisiting the topic of investment advisors” having anti-money-laundering plans, and “building on the changes to that industry pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC rules implementing Dodd-Frank and other changes,” Freis said.
Among participants in the securities industry, FinCEN’s rules currently apply to broker-dealers and to mutual funds, he said. FinCEN formally began focusing public attention on investment advisors in September 2002, Freis said, when FinCEN published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register proposing that unregistered investment companies establish anti-money-laundering programs.
