Payments

Letters and Testimonies

Letters to Congress

Title Recipient Date
Sen. Ted Budd 06/19/24
U.S. House of Representatives 05/21/24
Sen. Josh Hawley 09/20/23
House Financial Services Committee 09/19/23
House Financial Services Committee 07/19/23
House, Senate Leaders 07/14/23
House, Senate 07/11/23
House Financial Services Committee 06/13/23
Senate, House leaders 06/09/23
House Financial Services Committee 05/05/23
House Financial Services Committee 04/19/23
Rep. Tom Emmer 03/08/23
Senate, House 11/17/22
House, Senate 10/11/22
Senate 10/04/22
House 09/27/22
House 09/21/22
Senate 08/31/22
House Financial Services Committee 07/22/22
Senate Judiciary Committee 05/04/22
Senate Judiciary Committee 05/02/22
Sens. Cruz, Braun, Grassley 04/04/22
Rep. Tom Emmer 04/04/22
Congress 07/27/21
116th Congress 10/15/20
U.S. House Task Force on Financial Technology 09/29/20

Letters to Regulators

Title Recipient Date
06/11/24
Federal Reserve 05/11/24
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision 03/28/24
Federal Reserve, Justice Department, Treasury Department 03/22/24
BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures 02/28/24
Letter to Regulators 01/30/24
FinCEN 01/23/24
Federal Reserve 11/27/23
IRS 11/13/23
Federal Reserve 10/20/23

Testimony

Title Committee Presenter Date
House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion Written Statement 09/13/23
Senate Banking Committee Written Statement 02/13/23
Senate Banking Committee Written Statement 07/28/22
House Financial Services Committee Written statement 05/25/22
Senate Banking Hearing 02/15/22
House Financial Services Committee Written statement 02/08/22
Senate Banking Committee Written Statement 12/14/21
House Financial Services Committee Written statement 12/07/21
HSFC 09/29/20

Payments News

Treasury details crypto risks to terrorist, proliferation financing

Feb. 08, 2024

New Treasury Department reports spotlight the role of digital assets in terrorism and proliferation financing.

Details: Treasury’s 2024 National Risk Assessments cite the use of stablecoins by terrorist organizations and North Korea’s use of virtual currency mixers and decentralized finance to finance its illicit weapons programs. Separately, Chainanalysis reported that ransomware payments last year exceeded $1 billion in extorted cryptocurrency payments for the first time.

ICBA View: As part of its calls for policymakers to ensure new policies directed at the crypto sector fully reflect its risks, ICBA recently urged the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to expand on its proposal to combat crime enabled by cryptocurrency mixers. ICBA has also supported International Organization of Securities Commissions policy recommendations on digital assets markets and decentralized finance oversight.