Restoring Integrity to America's Financial System
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This executive order directs financial regulators and institutions to tighten controls around illicit cross-border financial activity and financial services provided to people described as inadmissible or removable under immigration law. It frames customer identification, know-your-customer checks, and enhanced due diligence as national security and public safety priorities, especially for low-dollar international transfers that may be linked to terrorism, drug trafficking, human trafficking, or money laundering. The order also warns banks and lenders about credit risk when offering mortgages, auto loans, credit cards, and other consumer credit to borrowers who may lose income because of immigration enforcement or lack of work authorization. Financial institutions should expect closer regulatory attention to customer identity checks, cross-border transfers, and lending standards tied to ability to repay.
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Key Changes
- Pushes financial institutions to strengthen customer identification and know-your-customer controls
- Targets low-dollar cross-border transfers that may be linked to terrorism, trafficking, drug activity, or money laundering
- Warns lenders to assess repayment risk when extending consumer credit to borrowers who may face immigration-related income loss
Obligations
What this law requires
Financial institutions should maintain robust customer identification programs and know-your-customer controls before providing basic financial services, to mitigate risks that accounts or transfers are used for terrorist financing, narcotics trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, or other illegal activity.
Financial institutions handling low-dollar cross-border funds transfers should apply enhanced due diligence measures to detect and mitigate illicit activity linked to terrorism, drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, or cartel-related financial networks.
Banks and other lenders should assess heightened credit risk when extending mortgages, auto loans, credit cards, or other consumer credit to borrowers who may lose wages or repayment capacity due to removal proceedings or lack of work authorization.