FinCEN recently published its FinCEN Year in Review for FY 2025. The Year in Review is intended to help stakeholders gain insight into both FinCEN’s efforts to support law enforcement and national security agencies and how financial information is used.

On April 16, 2026, FinCEN issued an order amending its June 2025 order finding that CIBanco S.A., Institución de Banca Multiple (CIBanco), is a financial institution operating outside of the United States that is of primary money laundering concern in connection with illicit opioid trafficking and imposing a special measure prohibiting certain transmittals of funds involving CIBanco. 

On April 15, 2026, FinCEN published a Fact Sheet detailing that FinCEN’s Rapid Response Program (RRP) has facilitated the interdiction of $1.8 billion and the recovery of over $1 billion in stolen proceeds on behalf of 5,790 U.S. victims. RRP is a partnership between FinCEN, U.S. law enforcement, and foreign partners working together to help victims and their financial institutions recover stolen funds sent abroad as the result of cyber-enabled fraud.

On April 8, 2026, FinCEN and the OFAC issued a joint proposed rule to implement provisions of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act) in countering illicit finance. The GENIUS Act directs the Treasury to issue regulations that would treat permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) as financial institutions for purposes of the BSA and impose anti-money laundering obligations on PPSIs.  

On April 7, 2026, FinCEN issued a proposed rule intended to fundamentally reform financial institutions’ anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) programs under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). According to FinCEN, the proposed rule would promote risk-based, reasonably designed programs and greater consistency in how banks are evaluated for effectiveness.

On April 7, 2026, the FDIC, the OCC, and the NCUA jointly issued a proposed rule to amend the respective requirements for their supervised institutions to establish and maintain effective risk-based anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) programs designed to identify, assess, and mitigate risks of illicit finance. The amendments are intended to align each agency’s AML/CFT rules with changes concurrently proposed by FinCEN.

On March 31, 2026, the OFAC issued a sanctions advisory to highlight sanctions risks arising from sham transactions used to evade sanctions and to identify factors to consider when evaluating whether property may be the subject of a sham transaction. Sham transactions occur when blocked individuals use intermediaries to falsely give up property to evade sanctions while still retaining an interest in it.

On March 30, 2026, FinCEN issued an Advisory to urge financial institutions to be vigilant in identifying and reporting suspicious transactions potentially related to health care fraud schemes targeting Medicare, Medicaid, and other Federal and state health care benefit programs. The Advisory builds on Treasury’s work to combat the potentially billions of dollars in rampant health care and government benefits fraud in Minnesota and across the country.