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.