On September 16, 2026, FinCEN led a FinCEN Exchange with global financial institutions to advance Operation Economic Outcast. The event armed financial institutions with the information they need to identify and disrupt illicit financial flows and procurement operations supporting the Iranian regime.

On September 9, 2026, FinCEN issued a Financial Trend Analysis identifying approximately $17.5 billion in suspicious financial activity potentially linked to health care fraud. The Analysis reinforces the Trump Administration’s commitment to eliminating fraud, protecting taxpayers, and safeguarding the integrity of federal health care programs.

On September 8, 2026, FinCEN issued an Alert to assist financial institutions in identifying and reporting procurement networks supporting Iran’s aviation industry, which the Iranian regime uses to transport weapons, funds, and personnel in support of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its terrorist proxies. In conjunction with the alert, OFAC sanctioned 36 targets, including 27 Iranian airlines, for supporting Iran’s aviation sector, which the regime uses to move weapons, personnel, and illicit cargo. 

On September 3, 2026, FinCEN published an analysis and an alert to financial institutions to be vigilant about digital asset investment scams perpetrated by overseas scam centers. According to FinCEN, these digital asset scams are largely driven by Southeast Asian criminal networks, which operate industrial-scale scam compounds and leverage vast networks of criminal actors to facilitate and profit from scams.

On September 2, 2026, FinCEN updated its Frequently Asked Questions on the Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) requiring money services businesses (MSBs) located in certain ZIP Codes in New Mexico and Texas near the U.S. southwest border  to report cash transactions of $1,000 or more with FinCEN. FinCEN renewed the GTO and is effective from September 3, 2026, through March 1, 2027.

On September 2, 2026, FinCEN, together with the Federal Reserve, FDIC, NCUA, and OCC, issued a joint statement to clarify that confidentiality requirements related to Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) do not preclude banks from communicating with their customers regarding potentially fraudulent transactions and other suspicious activity or account closures. The statement does not alter existing Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) legal or regulatory requirements or establish new supervisory expectations.

On September 2, 2026, FinCEN reissued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) to help law enforcement combat illicit activity and associated money laundering by Mexico-based cartels and other criminal actors along the southwest border of the United States. The GTO subjects certain money services businesses (MSBs) to enhanced reporting requirements with FinCEN.

On August 17, 2026, FinCEN held an outreach event bringing together law enforcement and financial sectors to address health care benefits fraud, specifically focusing on the exploitation of hospice care services. Participants discussed new and emerging health care fraud schemes targeting federal and state health insurance programs, associated financial typologies and red flag indicators, and opportunities to boost awareness around hospice care fraud.

On August 13, 2026, FinCEN issued a Financial Trend Analysis showing that financial institutions flagged nearly $5 billion linked to suspected human smuggling over a three-year period. The report analyzed 67,540 BSA reports associated with suspected human smuggling activity filed between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2025

On August 11, 2026, FinCEN issued a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act. FinCEN also announced that it will delete previously reported information by U.S. persons from the beneficial ownership information database.