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On November 6, FinCEN (the US Treasury's financial crimes unit) banned American banks from making any transfers to or from the MEXC Global crypto exchange. The exchange was named a "primary source of money laundering threat," with claims totaling $16 billion in transactions over five years.
Block (Jack Dorsey's payment company, founded by the Twitter co-founder, owns the Cash App with Bitcoin purchases) has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to pay $764M and close the case over weak anti-money laundering controls. This is more than the company's entire quarterly profit of $566M.
Analytics firm Chainalysis (a company that tracks coin movements on the blockchain and works with exchanges and regulators) has traced the Binance hack: the attacker managed to convert about $325M into other assets to bypass blockades. In parallel, roughly $2.8B has been frozen in connection with the incident.
FinCEN has withdrawn from consideration two major draft rules for cryptocurrencies: reporting on transfers to personal wallets from $10,000 and a separate control regime for crypto mixers. Both proposals had been under consideration for years but never came into force.
