--- title: "United States — Michigan (US-MI) — Financial-Integrity Intelligence · Sentinel" canonical: https://sentinel.gi/jurisdictions/united-states-michigan/ source_html: /jurisdictions/united-states-michigan/index.html description: "Financial integrity intelligence for United States – Michigan (US-MI): sanctions, beneficial ownership, enabler jurisdictions, conflict finance, digital assets and compliance technology — with sourced findings." generated_at: 2026-11-08T04:46:02Z content_sha256: 266d134525c3cc1152827e366ae5c4681b695a64e7d4a56636645292a5f9ce6b generator: "fe-fleet/md-twin@1.0" --- # United States — Michigan (US-MI) — Financial-Integrity Intelligence · Sentinel Not every instrument is backed by its official text yet. At least one law or rulebook covered here has no official source (tier 1) retrieved for it yet. No finding on this page is shown with confidence above “Probable” until stronger sources are retrieved. Financial Integrity Monitor # United States — Michigan US-MI Domains covered 8 of 8 Sources 152 Role actions 8 Horizon <90d 0 Jurisdiction profile FATF status: Compliant Tier: B Risk direction: Stable Enablement vs enforcement: Mixed Michigan operates entirely within the federal BSA/AML, OFAC-sanctions and FinCEN CTA architecture; the state layer consists of Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) corporate formation (no beneficial-ownership verification), DIFS licensing of money transmitters under the Uniform Money Services Act, and Attorney General consumer-protection alerts on crypto fraud. More No independent state FIU exists; Michigan financial institutions rely wholly on federal supervisory and enforcement infrastructure. Key deficiencies - No state-level beneficial ownership verification at LARA business-entity formation - Federal CTA's March 2025 interim final rule exempts domestic reporting companies from BOI reporting, leaving Michigan-formed LLCs/corporations effectively unverified at both state and federal levels - Cash-intensive licensed cannabis sector (Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act) remains structurally underbanked absent federal Schedule I reform - No dedicated Michigan state financial-intelligence unit; state-specific enforcement visibility is incidental to national DOJ/FinCEN reporting - Diaspora remittance corridors (Somali, Yemeni and other immigrant communities) present persistent unlicensed money-transmission risk absent robust state MSB supervision capacity Recent developments (18m) - Michigan physician sentenced to four years and ordered to pay restitution for $6.3M Medicare fraud scheme with money-laundering nexus (DOJ, June 26, 2025) - DOJ's largest-ever National Health Care Fraud Takedown (324 defendants, $14.6B, 50 federal districts) reshaping the enforcement environment in which Michigan-based providers and financial institutions operate (June 30, 2025) - FinCEN's March 2025 interim final rule narrowing Corporate Transparency Act BOI reporting to foreign reporting companies only, materially reducing beneficial-ownership visibility into Michigan-formed entities - FinCEN Health Care Fraud Advisory (March 2026) citing the Michigan physician case as an evidentiary typology exemplar for financial institutions nationwide - FinCEN proposed rule to refocus AML/CFT program requirements on effectiveness rather than technical compliance (NPRM, April 2026), applicable to all Michigan-chartered and federally regulated financial institutions United States federal law that applies in United States – Michigan is covered once, on the [United States](/jurisdictions/us/) page. This page covers United States – Michigan’s own layer: its own law, regulators and enforcement. Brief ## Lead signal #### Lead Signal Michigan's financial-integrity signal this cycle centers on a structural legislative divide over how the state will regulate cryptocurrency kiosks, the physical terminals through which retail customers convert cash into virtual currency and which have become a recurring vector for elder-fraud and scam-payment schemes nationally. Michigan Senate Bill 980, reported favorably without amendment by the Senate Finance Committee on 14 October 2026 and referred to the Committee of the Whole on 27 October 2026, proposes a statewide ban on installing or operating any cryptocurrency kiosk, with civil fines ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 for a first violation and $5,000 to $10,000 for subsequent violations. At the same time, House Bills 5469 and 5470 propose the opposite architecture: licensing and regulating virtual-currency kiosk operators under the existing Money Transmission Services Act framework, with compliance-officer and surety-bond requirements attached. The two chambers are pursuing fundamentally incompatible models, prohibition versus licensed permission, for the same facilitation vector, and which model prevails will materially determine the compliance obligations, or complete absence of lawful operating space, for kiosk operators doing business in Michigan. Read full brief #### Lead Signal Michigan's financial-integrity signal this cycle centers on a structural legislative divide over how the state will regulate cryptocurrency kiosks, the physical terminals through which retail customers convert cash into virtual currency and which have become a recurring vector for elder-fraud and scam-payment schemes nationally. Michigan Senate Bill 980, reported favorably without amendment by the Senate Finance Committee on 14 October 2026 and referred to the Committee of the Whole on 27 October 2026, proposes a statewide ban on installing or operating any cryptocurrency kiosk, with civil fines ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 for a first violation and $5,000 to $10,000 for subsequent violations. At the same time, House Bills 5469 and 5470 propose the opposite architecture: licensing and regulating virtual-currency kiosk operators under the existing Money Transmission Services Act framework, with compliance-officer and surety-bond requirements attached. The two chambers are pursuing fundamentally incompatible models, prohibition versus licensed permission, for the same facilitation vector, and which model prevails will materially determine the compliance obligations, or complete absence of lawful operating space, for kiosk operators doing business in Michigan. The second thread in this cycle is House Bill 5544, the Money Transmission Modernization Act, which in its H-2 substitute form would repeal the current Money Transmission Services Act effective 1 July 2027 and replace it with a new licensing framework that explicitly binds authorized delegates to Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT Act compliance obligations. The bill remains in the Senate Finance Committee following its 1 July 2026 referral, and its Senate floor trajectory beyond that committee stage has not been independently confirmed. If enacted, it would align Michigan with the roughly thirty-one-state cohort that has adopted the Conference of State Bank Supervisors' Money Transmission Modernization Act model, explicitly layering federal BSA and PATRIOT Act compliance duties onto state-licensed money transmitters and their authorized delegates, including, by extension, any licensed kiosk operators that fall under the House's competing licensing approach. #### Other Developments Divergent crypto-kiosk tracks create near-term uncertainty. The practical consequence of SB 980 and HB 5469/5470 moving on separate tracks is that a kiosk operator currently active in Michigan, or considering entry, faces two mutually exclusive legislative outcomes: an outright ban with escalating civil penalties, or a licensed, bonded, compliance-officer-supervised regime under the Money Transmission Services Act. Until one track prevails, the absence of a statewide kiosk regime has left municipalities filling the gap with local ordinances, a patchwork that itself signals weaker state-level enforcement coherence relative to jurisdictions with a settled statewide framework. This patchwork, combined with the financial exposure represented by kiosk-facilitated scam payments to retail customers, particularly older adults, is the clearest enabler-gap signal to emerge from Michigan this cycle. Money-transmission modernization would formalize a federal compliance backbone. Beyond the kiosk-specific fight, HB 5544's proposed repeal-and-replacement of the 2006 Money Transmission Services Act would be the more structurally significant of the two developments were it to advance, because it would apply uniformly across all money transmission licensees and their authorized delegates, not solely to crypto-kiosk operators. Binding authorized delegates explicitly to Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT Act compliance closes a gap that the current Act does not address with equivalent specificity, and would bring Michigan into closer alignment with the national model law that a majority of states have already adopted. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The same enforcement period that produced these legislative developments also saw Michigan's gaming regulator and Attorney General secure exits and contempt proceedings against prediction-market platforms offering sports-related event contracts, including a crypto-adjacent operator. While the regulatory theory behind those actions sits outside this monitor's core typologies, the broader pattern, Michigan simultaneously tightening its posture toward both an unlicensed, commodities-framed prediction-market product and a largely unregulated crypto-kiosk sector, suggests a state regulatory and legislative apparatus that is increasingly alert to financial products operating at the margins of its existing licensing categories. Where a jurisdiction's legislature is actively contesting the correct regulatory container for virtual-currency facilitation, as Michigan's is this cycle, that contestation is itself a signal worth tracking for any monitor concerned with how enabler gaps open and close at the state level in the federalist US system. #### Outlook The resolution of the SB 980 versus HB 5469/5470 divergence is the clearest near-term marker: a Senate floor vote following the Committee of the Whole referral, weighed against any House action on the competing licensing bills, will determine whether Michigan ends this period with a prohibition regime, a licensing regime, or continued legislative stalemate leaving the current local-ordinance patchwork in place. HB 5544's trajectory beyond its Senate Finance Committee referral is a second marker to watch, given its broader applicability to all money transmission licensees and its explicit BSA and PATRIOT Act compliance linkage; its targeted effective date, should it proceed unamended, is 1 July 2027. Illustrative scenario content elsewhere in this cycle's materials should not be read as a prediction of either outcome. Earlier periodic briefs (7) 4 Nov 2026 · fim-2026-11-01 #### Lead Signal Michigan's financial-integrity signal centers on a structural legislative divide over how the state will regulate cryptocurrency kiosks, the physical terminals through which retail customers convert cash into virtual currency and which have become a recurring vector for elder-fraud and scam-payment schemes nationally. Michigan Senate Bill 980, reported favorably without amendment by the Senate Finance Committee on 14 October 2026 and referred to the Committee of the Whole on 27 October 2026, proposes a statewide ban on installing or operating any cryptocurrency kiosk, with civil fines ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 for a first violation and $5,000 to $10,000 for subsequent violations. At the same time, House Bills 5469 and 5470 propose the opposite architecture: licensing and regulating virtual-currency kiosk operators under the existing Money Transmission Services Act framework, with compliance-officer and surety-bond requirements attached. The two chambers are pursuing fundamentally incompatible models, prohibition versus licensed permission, for the same facilitation vector, and which model prevails will materially determine the compliance obligations, or complete absence of lawful operating space, for kiosk operators doing business in Michigan. The second thread is House Bill 5544, the Money Transmission Modernization Act, which in its H-2 substitute form would repeal the current Money Transmission Services Act effective 1 July 2027 and replace it with a new licensing framework that explicitly binds authorized delegates to Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT Act compliance obligations. The bill remains in the Senate Finance Committee following its 1 July 2026 referral, and its Senate floor trajectory beyond that committee stage has not been independently confirmed. If enacted, it would align Michigan with the roughly thirty-one-state cohort that has adopted the Conference of State Bank Supervisors' Money Transmission Modernization Act model, explicitly layering federal BSA and PATRIOT Act compliance duties onto state-licensed money transmitters and their authorized delegates, including, by extension, any licensed kiosk operators that fall under the House's competing licensing approach. #### Other Developments Divergent crypto-kiosk tracks create near-term uncertainty. The practical consequence of SB 980 and HB 5469/5470 moving on separate tracks is that a kiosk operator currently active in Michigan, or considering entry, faces two mutually exclusive legislative outcomes: an outright ban with escalating civil penalties, or a licensed, bonded, compliance-officer-supervised regime under the Money Transmission Services Act. Until one track prevails, the absence of a statewide kiosk regime has left municipalities filling the gap with local ordinances, a patchwork that itself signals weaker state-level enforcement coherence relative to jurisdictions with a settled statewide framework. This patchwork, combined with the financial exposure represented by kiosk-facilitated scam payments to retail customers, particularly older adults, is the clearest enabler-gap signal to emerge from Michigan. Money-transmission modernization would formalize a federal compliance backbone. Beyond the kiosk-specific fight, HB 5544's proposed repeal-and-replacement of the 2006 Money Transmission Services Act would be the more structurally significant of the two developments were it to advance, because it would apply uniformly across all money transmission licensees and their authorized delegates, not solely to crypto-kiosk operators. Binding authorized delegates explicitly to Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT Act compliance closes a gap that the current Act does not address with equivalent specificity, and would bring Michigan into closer alignment with the national model law that a majority of states have already adopted. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The same enforcement period that produced these legislative developments also saw Michigan's gaming regulator and Attorney General secure exits and contempt proceedings against prediction-market platforms offering sports-related event contracts, including a crypto-adjacent operator. While the regulatory theory behind those actions sits outside this monitor's core typologies, the broader pattern, Michigan simultaneously tightening its posture toward both an unlicensed, commodities-framed prediction-market product and a largely unregulated crypto-kiosk sector, suggests a state regulatory and legislative apparatus that is increasingly alert to financial products operating at the margins of its existing licensing categories. Where a jurisdiction's legislature is actively contesting the correct regulatory container for virtual-currency facilitation, as Michigan's is this cycle, that contestation is itself a signal worth tracking for any monitor concerned with how enabler gaps open and close at the state level in the federalist US system. #### Outlook The resolution of the SB 980 versus HB 5469/5470 divergence is the clearest near-term marker: a Senate floor vote following the Committee of the Whole referral, weighed against any House action on the competing licensing bills, will determine whether Michigan ends this period with a prohibition regime, a licensing regime, or continued legislative stalemate leaving the current local-ordinance patchwork in place. HB 5544's trajectory beyond its Senate Finance Committee referral is a second marker to watch, given its broader applicability to all money transmission licensees and its explicit BSA and PATRIOT Act compliance linkage; its targeted effective date, should it proceed unamended, is 1 July 2027. Illustrative scenario content elsewhere in the materials should not be read as a prediction of either outcome. 3 Nov 2026 · fim-2026-11-03 #### Lead Signal Michigan's legislature and gaming regulator produced the clearest state-level signal yet of a split approach to cryptocurrency-kiosk risk. The Senate Finance Committee reported Senate Bill 980 favorably and without amendment on 14 October 2026, sending to the Committee of the Whole a measure that would prohibit any person, company, or government entity from installing or operating a cryptocurrency kiosk anywhere in the state, backed by civil fines of $2,000 to $5,000 for a first violation and $5,000 to $10,000 for subsequent violations. That prohibition-first track runs in parallel with, and in some tension against, the House's licensing-route kiosk bills (HB 5469/5470), which would instead create a regulatory regime for virtual-currency kiosks rather than banning them outright. The two chambers are not yet reconciled, and the divergence itself is the structural finding: Michigan has not settled whether kiosk risk is addressed through prohibition or through licensing, and the Senate's committee-stage momentum toward an outright ban is the more advanced of the two tracks as of this reporting. Alongside the kiosk question, the broader modernization of Michigan's money-transmission regime continues to move, if more slowly. House Bill 5544, passed by the House 97-10 on 25 June 2026 and referred to Senate Finance on 1 July 2026, carries an H-2 substitute that would repeal the 2006 Money Transmission Services Act effective 1 July 2027 and stand up a new Money Transmission Modernization Act effective 1 January 2027. Section 89(1) of that substitute would bind money-transmission licensees and their authorized delegates to compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act, formally wiring federal AML/CTF obligations into the state licensing architecture rather than leaving them as a background federal overlay. #### Other Developments A sports-event contract retreat. Polymarket US, operating through QCX LLC, agreed to cease offering sports-related event contracts and all sports positions to Michigan customers, confirmed by reporting dated 29 October 2026 covering a stipulation dated 28 October 2026. This follows the same pattern applied to other prediction-market operators active in the state and reflects continued use of the Michigan Gaming Control Board's enforcement posture toward sports-adjacent contract products, independent of the ongoing federal appellate questions about how such contracts should be classified. Committee-stage divergence as the operative fact. With SB 980 reported favorably and referred to the floor while HB 5469/5470 remain in process on the licensing track, Michigan enters the next period with no single settled regulatory model for kiosks. A prohibition that clears the Senate floor before the House licensing bills mature would effectively moot the regulatory-design debate by foreclosing the activity rather than regulating it. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The kiosk-ban and money-transmission-modernization tracks both sit at the boundary between state consumer-protection authority and federal financial-crime compliance architecture, relevant to payments-market oversight of how a sub-national jurisdiction treats the same underlying activity (cryptocurrency kiosks, sports-event contracts) differently depending on which regulator and which chamber's bill reaches the floor first. The Section 89(1) BSA/PATRIOT Act binding language in the House substitute is the clearest point of contact with federal AML/CTF obligations, formally extending those obligations to authorized delegates of state-licensed money transmitters rather than leaving licensee-only coverage. The sports-event-contract exits by Polymarket US sit adjacent to, but structurally distinct from, the question of how such instruments should be classified at the federal level, which remains contested in parallel litigation outside this state's legislative process. #### Outlook The near-term question is sequencing: whether SB 980 reaches the Senate floor and is sent to the House before the House's own licensing-route kiosk bills (HB 5469/5470) advance, and whether the Money Transmission Modernization Act clears the Senate Finance Committee in time to preserve its stated 1 January 2027 effective date and 1 July 2027 repeal-of-MTSA date. Floor movement on HB 5544 beyond the 1 July 2026 committee referral has not been independently re-verified, and that gap bears directly on how confidently the stated 2027 dates can be treated as fixed rather than as scheduled. 25 Oct 2026 · fim-2026-10-25 #### Lead Signal Michigan's municipal governments have begun filling a regulatory gap that the state legislature has so far left open. The City of Jackson banned cryptocurrency kiosks outright, with the ordinance taking effect October 22, 2026 and a 90-day removal window for existing machines, while Port Huron adopted an annual registration requirement for kiosk operators with a compliance deadline of October 1, 2026. Both actions were taken in the absence of a statewide kiosk framework: companion bills HB 5469 and HB 5470, which would establish a Virtual Currency Kiosk Consumer Protection Act requiring blockchain-analytics screening and written anti-fraud and enhanced-due-diligence policies from kiosk operators, remain pending in committee and were introduced, not enacted. The municipal patchwork sits alongside a separate but related stall at the state level: House Bill 5544, the Money Transmission Modernization Act, passed the Michigan House and was referred to the Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection Committee on July 1, 2026, and has seen no further legislative action since. As passed by the House, the bill's text continues to exclude the exchange, transfer, or custody of virtual currency from the definition of money transmission where no legal tender changes hands, meaning pure crypto-exchange and custody activity in Michigan remains outside money-transmission licensure under both the current Michigan Money Transmission Services Act and the pending modernization bill. #### Other Developments A federal money-laundering indictment tied to cash-only clinics was announced by the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, with five individuals, including three doctors, indicted on October 22, 2026 for conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances alongside related money-laundering charges. This is a federal Bank Secrecy Act and criminal-code prosecution rather than a state-level AML development, and no accompanying Michigan-specific statutory change was identified. FATF's scheduled review of Mexico and United States mutual evaluations at its October 28-30, 2026 Plenary was confirmed as on the agenda, though no outcome had been published; the Plenary is expected to discuss mutual evaluation reports for both jurisdictions under the new round of mutual evaluations. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The crypto-kiosk patchwork and the stalled money-transmission modernization bill both touch on enforcement and market-access questions that extend beyond financial-crime architecture narrowly defined. The sports-related event-contract enforcement activity involving platforms operating in Michigan, while not itself an AML finding, intersects with the same state regulatory apparatus now also managing crypto-kiosk oversight gaps, suggesting a broader pattern of Michigan state and local authorities asserting jurisdiction over emerging financial products ahead of settled federal or state statutory frameworks. The federal cash-only-clinic indictment is a conventional healthcare-fraud-adjacent money-laundering matter and does not itself connect to the crypto or payments threads active in Michigan. #### Outlook The near-term question is whether the Michigan Senate moves HB 5544 out of committee, and separately whether the House Regulatory Reform Committee advances HB 5469 and HB 5470, before further municipalities adopt their own kiosk rules. A discrepancy in House Fiscal Agency analyses over the effective repeal date for the existing Michigan Money Transmission Services Act, one citing July 1, 2026 and another citing July 1, 2027, remains unresolved and will matter for compliance planning once the bill moves. The FATF Plenary outcome on the Mexico and US mutual evaluations, expected from the October 28-30, 2026 session, was not yet published and will be the first data point on whether either jurisdiction's standing under the new evaluation round shifts. 18 Oct 2026 · fim-2026-10-18 #### Lead Signal Michigan's House Bill 5544, the Money Transmission Modernization Act, passed the state House 97-10 on June 25, 2026 and has remained pending in the Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection Committee since July 1, 2026. The bill would repeal the 2006 Money Transmission Services Act (MCL 487.1001-487.1047) effective July 1, 2027 and replace it with the Conference of State Bank Supervisors model law already adopted in some form by more than 31 states. This is an architecture story rather than an incident: Michigan is converging its money-transmitter licensing regime with a multistate model that standardizes capital, bonding, and multistate-examination acceptance for money service businesses, which are already BSA-obliged entities at the federal layer. #### Other Developments The virtual-currency reserve provision is the most consequential single element of the pending package for crypto-facing firms. The CSBS model law incorporated into HB 5544 would require a Michigan-licensed money transmitter handling virtual currency to hold like-kind virtual currency of the same volume obligated to its consumers, a direct reserve-backing requirement layered onto the existing fiat-focused money-transmission licensing regime. This provision remains at the consultation stage and has not been confirmed to survive Senate committee review unchanged. The repeal-and-replace structure itself is worth separating from the reserve provision. HB 5544 does not create a new standalone crypto law; it re-architects the general money-transmission licensing statute under which crypto exchanges, on/off-ramp providers, and payment companies already operate in Michigan. The practical effect, if enacted, is a standardized multistate licensing posture that reduces friction for money transmitters operating across the 31-plus states that have adopted the CSBS model, while simultaneously adding a new compliance burden specific to virtual-currency transmission. #### Cross-Monitor Connections This development connects directly to the world-payments monitor's licensing and market-access tracking, since HB 5544 governs the same statutory perimeter that defines market access for payment companies and crypto-asset operators in Michigan. It also connects to the crypto monitor's licensing module, where the same bill and the same like-kind reserve requirement is the central pending development. No sanctions, beneficial-ownership, enabler-jurisdiction, conflict-finance, or compliance-technology nexus was identified for Michigan this cycle; the absence of enforcement-driven signal in those pillars is itself consistent with Michigan's structural, legislative-track approach to money-transmitter modernization rather than enforcement-led regulation of the sector this cycle. #### Outlook The key open question is whether the Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection Committee will act on HB 5544 before the legislative session recesses, and whether the virtual-currency like-kind reserve provision survives committee review unchanged. If enacted on its current terms, the repeal of the current Money Transmission Services Act and its replacement by the CSBS-model Act would take effect July 1, 2027, standardizing licensing, capital, bonding, and virtual-currency reserve requirements for money transmitters operating in Michigan. 11 Oct 2026 · fim-2026-10-11 #### Lead Signal Michigan's money-transmission licensing perimeter — the instrument through which the state's AML/BSA framework reaches crypto-exchange and custody businesses — remains anchored to the 2006 Money Transmission Services Act, with the CSBS-model Money Transmission Modernization Act (the HB 5544 package) stalled in Senate committee after passing the House 97-10 on 25 June 2026 and being referred to the Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection Committee on 1 July 2026. No further tracked legislative action has surfaced since that referral, and the current Act's authorized-delegate and compliance provisions remain the operative BSA-adjacent perimeter for money-service businesses, including virtual-currency money transmitters, operating in Michigan. #### Other Developments Enactment status unresolved. A third-party tracker's conflicting signal suggesting the bill may have already become law could not be corroborated against Michigan's own legislative record this cycle; the architecture-over-incident read is that the structural question — whether Michigan will modernize its BSA-adjacent compliance language for authorized delegates before or after the 31 states that had already adopted the CSBS model as of February 2026 — remains open, regardless of how any single tracker currently labels the bill. Sports-related event-contract enforcement, gambling-adjacent. The Michigan Gaming Control Board's 7 October 2026 stipulation requiring Coinbase Financial Markets, Inc. to halt new sports-related event contracts to Michigan customers by 10 October 2026 arises from a gambling-regulatory theory rather than an AML/BSA or sanctions finding; no FinCEN or Treasury action specific to this dispute was located this cycle, and the primary regulatory dimension is tracked by the advennt gambling-regulatory monitor rather than here. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The gambling-regulatory enforcement against Coinbase in Michigan is primarily an advennt-domain finding; it is noted here only because the underlying entity is a crypto-asset operator whose broader regulatory footprint FIM tracks through the money-transmission licensing perimeter. The crypto-licensing dimension of the pending Money Transmission Modernization Act is tracked in parallel by the crypto monitor, which addresses the licensing-category consequences for exchange and custody businesses; this brief addresses only the BSA/AML-compliance-architecture dimension of the same pending bill. #### Outlook The Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection Committee's handling of the Money Transmission Modernization Act is the variable to watch. Absent further committee action, Michigan continues as a late adopter of the CSBS model law relative to the 31 states that had adopted it as of February 2026, and the current 2006 Act's authorized-delegate compliance language remains the operative BSA-adjacent perimeter for crypto-exchange and custody money transmitters in the state. 4 Oct 2026 · fim-2026-10-04 #### Lead Signal Michigan this cycle presents a partial picture concentrated in two threads: a state-level enforcement and litigation conflict touching crypto-adjacent prediction markets, and a pending legislative overhaul of the state money-transmission regime. A Michigan state court issued a preliminary injunction against KalshiEx LLC, with geofencing and a 500,000-dollar-per-day penalty, over sports-event contracts the state alleges constitute unlicensed gambling under the Lawful Sports Betting Act, Public Act 149 of 2019. The platform operates via a partnership that includes Coinbase Financial Markets Inc., which has separately and preemptively sued the State of Michigan in federal court, a suit that continues. Read together, this is less a single enforcement incident than a jurisdictional boundary dispute: a state gambling-law perimeter colliding with a financial-innovation product whose architecture sits adjacent to, but is not itself, a crypto-asset custody or exchange function. In parallel, House Bill 5544, the Money Transmission Modernization Act, continues to move through the Michigan Legislature. It passed the House 97-10 on 25 June 2026 and was referred to the Senate Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection on 1 July 2026, with no further action recorded as of this cycle. The bill would repeal the 2006 Money Transmission Services Act (MCL 487.1001-487.1047) in its entirety and replace it with a regime based on the Conference of State Bank Supervisors model law, including a virtual-currency exclusion clause for non-custodial, non-exchange activity. This is a structural development: it would re-architect the statutory basis on which every money transmitter, including crypto-asset operators conducting transmission-adjacent activity, is licensed in the state. #### Other Developments The standing AML architecture is unchanged. Michigan's financial-integrity baseline remains state money-transmitter licensing administered by the Department of Insurance and Financial Services under the 2006 Money Transmission Services Act, layered beneath the federal Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN money-services-business registration, with attendant SAR and CTR filing obligations. DIFS guidance continues to warn that failure to renew a license in a timely manner may prevent a firm from conducting money transmission in the state. No change to this layered architecture was found this cycle beyond the pending status of HB 5544 itself. The Kalshi and Coinbase matters remain unresolved. The preliminary injunction against KalshiEx is a court order, not a final judgment, and the Coinbase Financial Markets federal preemption suit is ongoing. Coverage available this cycle is press reporting rather than a primary court-docket record, and the research notes record this gap explicitly rather than treating the press account as a substitute for the underlying filing. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The Kalshi and Coinbase Financial Markets matters sit at the boundary between financial-integrity typology and the digital-asset and financial-innovation tracking more properly housed in a crypto-focused monitor; the financial-integrity angle here is the state-versus-federal licensing and preemption contest, not the underlying asset-class mechanics. The HB 5544 legislative thread connects to the standing Crypto and Digital-Asset Integrity tracker (T5 on the fleet-wide spine), since the bill's virtual-currency exclusion clause would determine, prospectively, which crypto-adjacent money-transmission activity falls inside or outside the state licensing perimeter. Neither thread this cycle produced a sanctions, beneficial-ownership, enabler-jurisdiction, or conflict-finance finding, and those domains were not actively re-swept given the search budget committed to the bound jurisdiction. #### Outlook The Kalshi injunction and the Coinbase preemption suit are both live and procedurally unresolved as at this cycle; whether the state's gambling-law theory or the federal preemption argument prevails will determine, for Michigan at least, whether prediction-market products distributed through a partner with crypto-exchange affiliations are treated as licensed gambling, as money transmission, or as neither. HB 5544 had not been enacted as of this cycle and remained before the Senate Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection; whether it proceeds un-amended, is amended to narrow or broaden the virtual-currency exclusion, or stalls, is not yet determinable from the record available this cycle. Michigan's underlying AML architecture is unaffected by either thread unless and until HB 5544 is enacted. 14 Sep 2026 · fim-2026-08-21 #### Lead Signal FinCEN has permanently closed the door on domestic beneficial-ownership reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act. The August 11, 2026 final rule makes permanent a March 2025 interim rule that narrows Beneficial Ownership Information reporting to foreign reporting companies only, exempting nearly all U.S. persons and companies, and FinCEN will delete previously filed U.S.-person BOI data outright. For a Michigan-formed entity, or any U.S.-formed structure more broadly, this is a structural retreat in federal corporate-transparency architecture rather than an incident: no Michigan-specific beneficial-ownership registry variance was identified this cycle to offset the federal narrowing, meaning the practical opacity of US-formed shell structures widens at the federal baseline that would otherwise apply. #### Other Developments Southwest Border sanctions-adjacent architecture also moved this cycle. FinCEN's modified Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order lowers the Currency Transaction Report threshold to between $1,000 and $10,000 for designated money-services businesses, effective March 7 through September 2, 2026, aimed at disrupting cartel bulk-cash laundering. A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a preliminary injunction on July 13, 2026 blocking enforcement in the Southern District of California pending litigation, so the architecture is live but only partially operative. This sits alongside the U.S. Treasury and State Department's February 2026 designation of eight organizations, including six major Mexico-based drug cartels, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and/or Specially Designated Global Terrorists, tying the reporting architecture directly to counter-cartel sanctions strategy. Stablecoin AML and sanctions architecture advanced toward, but has not reached, finality. A joint FinCEN/OFAC notice of proposed rulemaking would classify Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers as a distinct Bank Secrecy Act financial-institution category, carrying AML program, Suspicious Activity Report, recordkeeping, and a five-element sanctions-compliance-program obligation; the comment period closed June 9, 2026 and a final rule has not yet issued. FATF grey-list churn rounded out the cycle. The June 19, 2026 Increased Monitoring statement added Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iraq while removing Algeria and Namibia. Separately, and at a lower confidence tier, Cambodia's central bank governor has publicly warned that Cambodia risks FATF re-listing over persistent links between offshore-style online gambling and scam centres and money laundering; this rests on a single trade-press source quoting the governor rather than a primary FATF statement naming Cambodia, and is held at an assessed rather than high-confidence tier accordingly. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The stablecoin AML/sanctions NPRM is a direct hand-off to the crypto monitor, which tracks the underlying stablecoin-issuance and licensing regime that this proposed BSA classification would sit on top of; readers tracking Michigan's or the federal stablecoin posture should read the two findings together rather than in isolation. The Southwest Border GTO and cartel FTO/SDGT designations connect to the world-payments monitor's money-transmission and correspondent-banking coverage, since designated money-services businesses are the direct subject of the lowered CTR threshold. Cambodia's gambling-linked laundering exposure is a standing cross-reference for the advennt monitor's enforcement-theory coverage of offshore and scam-adjacent gambling operations, though no advennt-scoped claim on Cambodia was composed this cycle. #### Outlook The most consequential open question is whether the FinCEN/OFAC PPSI rule is finalized; the regulatory horizon places this at 2027-Q1 with a half-year uncertainty band, and the direction of travel on implementation is assessed as improving compliance clarity for stablecoin issuers once finalized. The Ninth Circuit's partial injunction on the Southwest Border GTO is the near-term litigation marker to watch, since it currently limits enforcement in one federal district while leaving the underlying order otherwise in place. Cambodia's re-listing risk is a watch item pending a primary FATF statement; absent one, this remains an assessed rather than confirmed development. On the beneficial-ownership front, the GAO's own findings on the resulting ownership-opacity gap are the natural marker of whether Congress or FinCEN revisits the permanent CTA exemption. Domain intelligence (D1–D8) #### Sanctions Architecture and Evasion The OFAC 16 January 2026 designation of 21 individuals and entities, plus one vessel, in a Houthi oil-smuggling and financing network spanning Yemen, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates is this cycle principal sanctions-architecture development bound to Michigan, held at High confidence on direct Treasury/OFAC sourcing. The designation targets the connective infrastructure of an oil-smuggling and revenue-generation network rather than a single end-user, consistent with the F2 sanctions-architecture filter three-level analytical structure: the underlying oil-smuggling scheme, the cross-jurisdictional financing architecture that moves proceeds through Yemen, Oman, and UAE-based intermediaries, and the strategic consequence of degrading a Houthi revenue stream tied to the CTF pillar rather than the AML pillar that dominates most of this cycle other findings. This pillar distribution matters analytically: five of the seven structured findings this cycle sit under the AML pillar, and the Houthi designation is this cycle principal counter-terrorist-financing signal, correcting for the structural AML-volume bias that the FIM analytical register flags as a standing risk. Continue reading The relevance of this designation to Michigan is inherited rather than jurisdiction-specific, consistent with prior-cycle dual-use-diversion and cartel-designation exposure noted in earlier coverage: Michigan holds no independent sanctions authority, and financial institutions operating in the state, including Detroit-area banks and any correspondent or trade-finance relationships touching the designated Yemen-Oman-UAE network, inherit screening obligations entirely from the federal OFAC list update. No Michigan-specific transaction or counterparty link to the designated network was identified this cycle; the exposure is structural rather than confirmed-active, consistent with the broader posture in which Michigan carries federal sanctions-architecture risk without independent enforcement capacity. Set against this new designation, the standing Russian Sanctions-Evasion Architecture tracker (T1) recorded no material Russia-specific finding this cycle, with the interpreter noting explicitly that the adjacent Houthi/Yemen action was logged under this domain instead of any Russia-specific development. This is itself an analytically relevant absence: the baseline_stable flag for this tracker remains true and the trajectory remains stable, meaning prior-cycle dual-use export-diversion exposure and Russia-oil licensing carve-outs, both inherited by Michigan through federal instruments, continue unchanged rather than escalating or resolving. The Sanctions Regime Divergence tracker (T6), covering US, UK, and EU autonomous-listing practice, similarly recorded no new divergence signal this cycle beyond the standing Houthi/Yemen action, and this finding is held at Low confidence given the thin evidentiary basis of that tracker this cycle. The FATF grey-list turnover at the June 2026 Plenary, while primarily an enabler-jurisdiction domain finding, carries a secondary sanctions-architecture dimension worth noting here: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iraq were newly added to the 22-jurisdiction increased-monitoring list, while Algeria and Namibia were removed, and Lao PDR remains listed for an unresolved casino- and SEZ-based supervisory deficiency. Jurisdictional listing changes of this kind function as an FATF-level architecture signal that interacts with sanctions-compliance risk-rating obligations even where no direct OFAC or Treasury action accompanies them. The Houthi designation cross-monitor routing reinforces its sanctions-architecture significance: it is flagged to SCEM for conflict-finance relevance given the arms-financing dimension embedded in the network exchange-house infrastructure, to ERM for the vessel and oil-smuggling components relevant to commodity-flow evasion tracking, and to GMM at Assessed confidence for Red Sea sanctions and shipping-risk transmission. This three-monitor routing is itself evidence that a single sanctions-architecture enforcement event carries structural implications well beyond the CTF pillar in which it is primarily classified, a pattern consistent with the FIM analytical register instruction to treat architecture-level findings as more significant than their originating incident. Taken as a whole, the status of this domain this cycle is material_change, driven entirely by the new OFAC designation event rather than by any Michigan-specific enforcement development. The severity_preliminary reading is that this is a High-confidence, CTF-pillar-correcting addition to standing sanctions-architecture coverage, sitting alongside continuing, unchanged federal exposure inherited by Michigan through export-control and Russia-oil licensing frameworks that were not independently revisited this cycle. #### Outlook The principal forward-looking question is whether any Michigan-specific nexus to the designated Houthi financing network, or to the previously flagged dual-use export-diversion risk, surfaces in a future cycle as a confirmed rather than structural finding. The FATF grey-list composition is also a standing watch item ahead of the next Plenary, particularly whether the Lao PDR casino/SEZ deficiency is resolved or escalated. This outlook is offered as analytical orientation on open questions, not as a prediction of how they will resolve. Judgment: No US-MI-specific sanctions development identified this cycle. Uncertain #### Beneficial Ownership and Corporate Transparency For Michigan, as for any US jurisdiction, the beneficial-ownership and corporate-transparency development directly relevant to the local regulatory perimeter is federal rather than European: the Corporate Transparency Act beneficial-ownership information reporting rule remains narrowed to foreign reporting companies only, with domestic entities, including Michigan-formed LLCs and corporations, and their beneficial owners exempt from BOI disclosure. This is held at High confidence on Tier-1 sourcing, and the Government Accountability Office May 2026 report formally quantified the resulting gap, finding that greater than 99 percent of previously covered entities have been removed from reporting scope. A final rule addressing this exemption has been pending Office of Management and Budget review since 5 June 2026, meaning the current posture, treated in the standing Beneficial-Ownership Register Status tracker as a structural rather than episodic development, remains provisional pending finalization. Continue reading The practical effect nationally is that domestic entities across all fifty states, Michigan included, face no BOI disclosure obligation absent a foreign nexus, a policy posture the jurisdiction-risk tracker for the United States assesses as increasing risk and structural rather than episodic in nature, driven entirely by enablement, meaning by the design of the exemption itself, rather than by any documented enforcement gap event. Globally, the EU AML Package sets the structural direction for beneficial-ownership and corporate-transparency architecture, even though it holds no direct application to Michigan or the wider United States. That package is properly understood as three distinct instruments rather than a single regulation: the AML Regulation, or AMLR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1624), which is directly applicable across EU member states without domestic transposition; the sixth AML Directive, or 6AMLD, which each member state transposes into national law; and the AMLA Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1620), which establishes the Anti-Money Laundering Authority and shifts the supervisory perimeter for cross-border and high-risk obliged entities from purely national competent authorities toward a hybrid EU-level regime combining direct AMLA supervision of a defined set of entities with indirect oversight of the remainder through national supervisors. No AMLR application, 6AMLD transposition milestone, or AMLA direct-supervision-perimeter development surfaced in the research conducted this cycle; the standing EU AML Package/AMLA tracker records this domain as stable with no change. This durable architectural backdrop is the frame against which the federally driven beneficial-ownership posture of Michigan should be read: where the EU is moving toward centralized, hybrid supervision of ownership-transparency obligations, the United States this cycle moved in the structurally opposite direction, narrowing rather than centralizing the ownership-disclosure perimeter. This divergence is the principal analytical finding of this domain this cycle. The formal, quantified documentation by GAO of a greater than 99 percent reporting-scope reduction is a governance-architecture finding, not merely a compliance-technicality footnote, and it is flagged to WDM at High confidence as an institutional-integrity signal precisely because a beneficial-ownership disclosure regime that formally covers under 1 percent of its originally intended universe raises questions about the fitness for purpose of the transparency architecture that extend beyond any single obliged-entity sector. The CTA finding carries an explicit FATF Recommendation 24 tag, situating it within the broader international beneficial-ownership standard against which both the US and EU frameworks are assessed, even though the US has pursued a narrower reporting-scope trajectory than the EU move toward centralized supervision this cycle. This FATF-standard framing is useful because it allows the same underlying obligation, disclosure of legal-entity beneficial ownership, to be compared across the two most consequential ownership-transparency regimes tracked by this domain without treating either jurisdiction choice as inherently more or less legitimate; the analytical question is whether enforcement and coverage follow the stated legal framework, not whether the framework itself was well-intentioned. The affected customer typology for this cycle CTA finding is corporate entities specifically, meaning obliged US financial institutions conducting customer due diligence on corporate customers can no longer rely on the FinCEN beneficial-ownership registry for domestic entities to close ownership-verification gaps, and must instead source ownership information through their own CDD processes absent a foreign-entity nexus that would trigger BOI reporting. This shifts, rather than eliminates, the verification burden, moving it from a centralized federal registry back onto individual obliged-entity compliance programs, a redistribution that the domain tracker frames as materially widening rather than narrowing the aggregate beneficial-ownership-transparency gap despite leaving the underlying legal disclosure standard itself unchanged. #### Outlook The central forward-looking question for this domain is whether the CTA BOI final rule, now at OMB review with an estimated 2026-Q4 impact date on a half-year uncertainty band, preserves, narrows, or reverses the current domestic-entity exemption. A reversal would materially improve the currently deteriorating beneficial-ownership transparency assessment; continuation would entrench it. On the EU side, the next milestone to watch is any AMLA direct-supervision-perimeter announcement or AMLR application-date development, though none surfaced this cycle. This outlook, including the standing illustrative sketch on the AMLA transition referenced elsewhere in this brief, is offered as analytical orientation only, not as a prediction of any outcome. Judgment: No Michigan-specific beneficial-ownership development identified this cycle. Uncertain #### Enabler Jurisdictions Michigan illustrates a capacity deficit pattern distinct from the classic offshore enabler-jurisdiction story: the gap here is not a permissive national regime but a sub-national one, where state legislative stall has left municipal governments to construct ad hoc oversight for a cash-intensive, fraud-exposed financial product. Cryptocurrency kiosks, physical machines that convert cash to crypto assets and back, have drawn fraud-risk concern from local officials, and in the absence of a statewide licensing or consumer-protection framework, the City of Jackson voted to ban them outright, with the prohibition taking effect October 22, 2026 and existing operators given a 90-day window to remove machines. Port Huron took a lighter-touch approach, requiring kiosk operators to register annually, with a compliance deadline of October 1, 2026. Both responses emerged while the state-level Virtual Currency Kiosk Consumer Protection Act, introduced as House Bills 5469 and 5470, remains pending in the House Regulatory Reform Committee; that bill would require kiosk operators to implement blockchain-analytics screening and written anti-fraud and enhanced-due-diligence policies, the kind of controls that would normally close the gap municipalities are now addressing piecemeal. Continue reading The broader structural point for enabler-jurisdiction analysis is that regulatory arbitrage and gaps are not exclusively a cross-border phenomenon. A patchwork of municipal rules, some banning a product outright and others merely registering it, creates the same kind of exploitable unevenness within a single state that a mismatched set of national AML regimes creates across borders: an operator excluded from Jackson can potentially relocate a kiosk to a municipality with no rule at all, and will face materially different compliance burdens, from none to a ban, depending on which Michigan jurisdiction it operates in. This unevenness persists because the state legislature has not yet acted, not because any single Michigan jurisdiction has deliberately adopted a permissive posture to attract the business. That distinction matters: the Michigan pattern reads as a capacity gap awaiting a statutory fix, not an enablement strategy, and the evidence available this cycle does not support characterizing any Michigan locality as deliberately courting kiosk operators displaced elsewhere. A related and currently unresolved dimension is the state's parallel inaction on the Money Transmission Modernization Act, House Bill 5544, which passed the Michigan House on a strong margin and was referred to the Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection Committee on July 1, 2026, with no further Senate action recorded through this cycle. As passed by the House, the bill preserves the existing carve-out under which the exchange, transfer, or custody of virtual currency that does not involve the transfer of legal tender falls outside the state's definition of money transmission. That carve-out means that even if the bill were enacted as currently drafted, pure crypto-exchange and custody businesses in Michigan would continue to sit outside money-transmission licensure, leaving the kiosk-specific gap that Jackson and Port Huron are now addressing locally as the primary active oversight mechanism for that activity in the state pending any further legislative movement. #### Outlook The trajectory to watch is whether additional Michigan municipalities adopt their own kiosk rules, further entrenching the patchwork, before the House Regulatory Reform Committee advances HB 5469/5470 or the Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection Committee moves on HB 5544. A resolution of the House Fiscal Agency's internal discrepancy over the Michigan Money Transmission Services Act's effective repeal date, one analysis citing July 1, 2026 and another citing July 1, 2027, would also clarify the compliance runway for affected firms. Until state-level action occurs, expect the municipal approach to remain the operative mechanism for kiosk oversight in Michigan, with uneven application across jurisdictions the structural condition to monitor rather than any single enforcement event. Judgment: Michigan's local-ordinance patchwork on crypto kiosks ahead of state action is a mild enabler-gap signal pending state legislation. Probable #### Conflict Finance and Extractive-Industry Integrity No primary conflict-finance finding bound directly to Michigan was located this cycle, and the coverage-gap register explicitly identifies this as a located absence: a Michigan-bound direct D4 finding was not found despite the gambling-regulation-heavy source environment surveyed. The only signal in this domain this cycle is a secondary linkage, held at Low confidence, running through the OFAC Houthi designation: the exchange-house infrastructure of the sanctioned network carries an arms-financing dimension, connecting the oil-smuggling and financial network to weapons-procurement funding for Houthi forces in Yemen. This linkage is properly classified under this domain because of its conflict-finance character, even though the primary classification and evidentiary basis sit in the Sanctions Architecture and Evasion domain. Continue reading No Michigan-specific institution, transaction, or corporate structure has been identified as a channel for this or any other conflict-finance flow this cycle, and the jurisdiction-risk-tracker entry for Yemen, rather than for Michigan, carries the primary evidentiary weight behind even this secondary linkage. This is an honest reflection of a genuinely thin cycle for this domain rather than a gap requiring invented content: the trajectory of this domain is held at watch, the baseline is assessed stable, and status remains watch pending any future cycle in which a Michigan-bound conflict-finance or extractive-industry finding is located. This absence should not be read as an indication that Michigan carries no conflict-finance exposure in principle; it reflects the limits of the source environment surveyed this cycle rather than a settled null finding, and the gap is explicitly logged for future resolution rather than silently dropped. #### Outlook The principal open item is whether a future cycle locates a genuine Michigan-bound conflict-finance or extractive-industry finding; none exists in the current evidentiary base. Continued monitoring of the arms-financing dimension of the Houthi network for any onward Michigan nexus is a standing watch item. This outlook is analytical orientation only, not a prediction. Judgment: No conflict-finance development identified for this jurisdiction this cycle. Uncertain #### Crypto / Digital Assets / Financial Innovation Michigan's legislature is currently pursuing two incompatible approaches to the same crypto facilitation vector. Senate Bill 980, reported favorably without amendment by the Senate Finance Committee on 14 October 2026 and referred to the Committee of the Whole on 27 October 2026, would impose a statewide ban on installing or operating any cryptocurrency kiosk, with civil fines of $2,000 to $5,000 for a first violation and $5,000 to $10,000 for subsequent violations. House Bills 5469 and 5470 move in the opposite direction, proposing to license and regulate virtual-currency kiosk operators under the Money Transmission Services Act framework, with compliance-officer and surety-bond requirements attached. This is a structural legislative divergence, a prohibition track in the Senate against a licensing track in the House, for the identical facilitation vector, and it leaves kiosk operators in the state facing genuine near-term uncertainty about whether Michigan will end up with no lawful kiosk operation at all or a bonded, supervised licensing regime. Continue reading In the absence of a statewide kiosk framework to date, municipalities have filled the gap with local ordinances, a patchwork response that is itself a mild enabler-gap signal: it indicates that state-level oversight of a facilitation channel frequently implicated in scam-payment and elder-fraud typologies has lagged behind local recognition of the problem. The crypto-kiosk question also sits alongside, without being identical to, developments affecting crypto-adjacent commercial activity in Michigan's gaming sector more broadly, where state authorities have been active against platforms operating at the margins of existing licensing categories. Read together, the kiosk divergence and the parallel enforcement attention to margin products suggest Michigan's institutions are increasingly focused on where virtual-currency-adjacent products sit relative to existing licensing containers, even where the legislature has not yet settled on a single answer for kiosks specifically. #### Outlook The near-term marker is whether SB 980 reaches a Senate floor vote following its Committee of the Whole referral, and whether HB 5469/5470 see corresponding House action, before either track resolves the divergence. Until one model prevails, legislatively or by one chamber yielding to the other, the local-ordinance patchwork is likely to persist as the only operative check on kiosk activity in much of the state. Any eventual resolution, ban or licensing, would also interact with the broader money-transmission modernization effort underway in the same legislative session, since a licensed kiosk regime would most naturally sit within whichever money transmission framework the state ultimately adopts. Judgment: Structural legislative divergence between a crypto-kiosk ban (SB 980) and a licensing regime (HB 5469/5470) emerged this cycle, alongside continued enforcement against crypto-adjacent prediction-market platforms. Probable #### Compliance Technology and Active Defence The FinCEN April 2026 notice of proposed rulemaking is the central compliance-technology and active-defence development bound to Michigan this cycle: it proposes to overhaul Bank Secrecy Act AML/CFT program-effectiveness standards under 31 CFR Part 1021, and the domain tracker characterizes it as a paradigm-level shift from checklist-style compliance toward governance-driven, risk-assessment-anchored effectiveness standards. This reframing is the core signal of this domain, held at Assessed confidence given that the underlying evidentiary basis is two independent Tier-3 legal-alert analyses rather than a directly retrieved Tier-1 regulatory text; the comment period closed on 9 June 2026, and the final rule remains pending. Continue reading The proposed obligation structure, drawn from the associated obligation reference, specifies a governance-type obligation under proposed 31 CFR Part 1021.210(b)(1), applicable to cross-sector obliged entities, currently at the consultation citation stage, with an explicitly partial control-gap signal, meaning existing casino AML/CFT programs are assessed as only partially prepared for the proposed standard rather than either fully compliant or fully deficient. This partial-gap framing is itself the analytically significant point: it indicates the shift is evolutionary in the sense that most obliged casino operators already maintain some risk-assessment capability, but substantial in the sense that the proposed rule would require that capability to be documented, board-approved, and explicitly anchored to AML/CFT National Priorities rather than left as an informal or ad hoc practice. For Michigan specifically, this development converts a national compliance-technology shift into a jurisdiction-bound cost and capability question, because direct, in-state, licensed commercial and tribal gaming operators are located in Michigan, a comparatively unusual feature among the states covered by the broader jurisdiction set of this monitor. The associated key judgment, held at Assessed confidence with a deteriorating trajectory, is that the proposed standard would raise compliance costs for the Detroit commercial and tribal casino operations in Michigan if finalized as proposed, reflecting the incremental cost of moving from checklist documentation to substantive, board-level, risk-based governance infrastructure. The material_change status of this domain this cycle rests entirely on the reform-stage transition of the NPRM from no proposal to formal consultation, a categorical trigger under the change-classification rules of the interpreter rather than on any confirmed enforcement action or documented compliance failure at a specific Michigan operator. No Michigan-specific enforcement action, examination finding, or documented compliance-technology deployment was identified this cycle; the signal in this domain is entirely regulatory-horizon-driven rather than enforcement-driven, consistent with the broader observation that this cycle Michigan-bound findings skew toward federal reform activity rather than confirmed local incidents. Although the most visible application of the NPRM is to casino and card-club operators specifically, the affected-firm-type classification is coded as cross-sector rather than gaming-specific, indicating an assessment that the underlying effectiveness-standard, governance-driven approach could serve as a template with potential relevance beyond Part 1021 institutions to other Bank Secrecy Act obliged sectors more broadly, even though no such extension has been proposed or confirmed this cycle. This distinction between an actual, narrow rulemaking scope and a broader potential template effect is worth preserving analytically: the confirmed fact this cycle is a casino-specific proposal; the broader-template reading is an assessment about compliance-technology direction rather than a documented regulatory fact. The confidence ceiling for this domain this cycle, Assessed rather than High, is a direct function of source-tier limitation rather than of any doubt about the underlying regulatory fact: the existence of the NPRM and the June 2026 comment-period closure are not seriously in question, but the absence of a directly retrieved Tier-1 FinCEN or Federal Register text this cycle means confidence has appropriately not been elevated to High despite corroboration across two independent secondary sources. A future cycle that retrieves the primary Federal Register notice or a subsequent Tier-1 FinCEN statement on rule status would be positioned to revise this confidence level. Read against the FIM register architecture-over-incident principle, this is precisely the kind of development the register privileges: a structural change to what effective AML/CFT governance means for an entire obliged-entity sector is more analytically significant than any single casino individual examination outcome, even though no individual outcome has yet been documented in either direction. #### Outlook The central forward-looking question is whether the NPRM is finalized substantially as proposed, revised in response to comment-period feedback, or allowed to lapse; the estimated impact date sits at 2027-Q1 with a half-year uncertainty band, meaning the practical compliance-technology consequences for Michigan casino operators may not crystallize until well into 2027 at the earliest. This outlook is offered as analytical orientation on an open rulemaking question, not as a prediction of its outcome. Judgment: No compliance-technology development identified for Michigan this cycle. Uncertain #### AML/CTF Regime House Bill 5544, the Money Transmission Modernization Act, remains the central AML/CTF-relevant development for Michigan this cycle. In its H-2 substitute form, the bill would repeal the current Money Transmission Services Act effective 1 July 2027 and replace it with a new licensing framework that explicitly binds authorized delegates to Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT Act compliance obligations. The bill has been in the Senate Finance Committee since its 1 July 2026 referral, and its floor trajectory beyond that committee stage has not been independently confirmed this period. If enacted as drafted, the bill would bring Michigan into closer alignment with the roughly thirty-one-state cohort that has adopted the Conference of State Bank Supervisors' model Money Transmission Modernization Act, closing a gap in the current statute's treatment of authorized delegates and giving the state a more explicit statutory hook for federal CDD-linked obligations within its own money transmission licensing regime. Continue reading The practical significance of this bill is broader than the crypto-kiosk-specific fight playing out in parallel, because it would apply to all money transmission licensees and their authorized delegates, not solely to virtual-currency facilitators. Framed against the standing three-pillar balance this register applies, HB 5544 is squarely an AML-pillar development: it strengthens the CDD-adjacent obligations attaching to authorized delegates rather than addressing CTF or CPF considerations directly. Its pending status, committee referral without confirmed floor movement, means the current Money Transmission Services Act, without the explicit BSA/PATRIOT Act delegate-compliance language, remains the operative law in Michigan as of this period. #### Outlook The key development to track is whether HB 5544 advances out of the Senate Finance Committee to a floor vote, and whether its companion bill HB 5548 moves in parallel. Given the bill's targeted 1 July 2027 effective date, any further committee delay narrows the implementation runway without necessarily changing the substantive provisions. Resolution of the parallel crypto-kiosk legislative divergence may also inform how any eventual money-transmission modernization framework treats kiosk operators specifically, since a licensing-track outcome for kiosks would most naturally be absorbed into whichever money transmission framework HB 5544 or its successor ultimately establishes. Judgment: HB 5544's Money Transmission Modernization Act, which would bind authorized delegates to BSA/USA PATRIOT Act compliance, remains pending in Senate Finance Committee. Probable #### Commercial Activity The clearest commercial-activity signal this cycle is the continued exit of crypto-linked prediction-market operators from Michigan's sports-related event-contract space. Polymarket US, operating through QCX LLC, agreed to cease offering sports event contracts and all sports positions to Michigan customers, per reporting dated 29 October 2026 describing a stipulation entered on 28 October 2026. This is not an isolated event; it follows the same regulatory pressure previously applied to other operators in the same product category, and it reflects a consistent enforcement stance by Michigan's gaming regulator toward sports-adjacent contract products regardless of whether the operator frames itself as a crypto-native prediction market or a conventional event-contract platform. The amount or commercial terms of the exit were not publicly disclosed, consistent with the nature of a regulatory stipulation rather than a negotiated commercial transaction. Continue reading This commercial retreat sits against a backdrop of unresolved legislative uncertainty over how the state will treat related digital-asset activity going forward. The Senate's advancement of a flat cryptocurrency-kiosk prohibition (discussed under the digital-assets heading) and the pending Money Transmission Modernization Act both bear on the broader commercial environment for digital-asset-adjacent businesses operating in Michigan, even though neither directly caused this particular market exit. Taken together, the pattern this cycle is one of commercial contraction in a specific product category (sports-related event contracts) running in parallel with, rather than as a direct consequence of, the separate legislative tracks addressing kiosks and money transmission. #### Outlook Whether further crypto-adjacent commercial operators follow the same exit path from Michigan's sports-event-contract market will depend substantially on how the state's gaming regulator continues to apply its existing enforcement authority, a posture that has so far proven more immediately consequential for market participants than the pending legislative tracks on kiosks and money transmission, neither of which has yet reached final floor action. Firms assessing continued Michigan exposure in adjacent product categories should treat the regulatory posture toward sports-related event contracts as settled in practice even though the broader statutory and licensing architecture around digital assets in the state remains in motion. Judgment: No D8-specific commercial event beyond the crypto-adjacent prediction-market exits already carried in other consumers' claims. Uncertain Regulatory horizon Proposed 2027-Q1 · ±half_year ### Money Transmission Modernization Act (HB 5544/5548) Repeal and replacement of the 2006 Money Transmission Services Act with a new licensing framework including explicit BSA/USA PATRIOT Act compliance duties for authorized delegates. [Source](https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2026-HB-5544) Consultation 2027-Q1 · ±half_year ### Cryptocurrency-kiosk regulation (competing SB 980 ban vs HB 5469/5470 licensing) Either a statewide ban (SB 980) or a licensing/surety-bond regime under the Money Transmission Services Act (HB 5469/5470) for kiosk operators. [Source](https://legislature.mi.gov/) Proposed 2027-Q3 · ±year ### Money Transmission Modernization Act (HB 5544 package) Repeals MCL 487.1001-487.1047 effective July 1, 2027 and replaces it with licensing, multistate-examination acceptance, and virtual-currency reserve requirements for money transmitters operating in Michigan. [Michigan Legislature / Dept. of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) Source](https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2026-HB-5544) 3 dated · 2 pending date · baseline fim-2026-07-05 Role action cards MLRO ### Michigan's legislature is split between banning and licensing crypto kiosks, with HB 5544 separately proposing explicit BSA/PATRIOT Act duties for money-transmission delegates. Depending on which kiosk track prevails, reporting officers at firms with Michigan kiosk exposure face either an operational wind-down or a new compliance-officer and bonding obligation under the Money Transmission Services Act. HB 5544 would additionally formalize BSA/PATRIOT Act compliance expectations for authorized delegates statewide if enacted. 3 evidence refs Compliance ### A structural divergence between a Senate kiosk ban and a House kiosk licensing regime leaves Michigan's crypto-kiosk compliance perimeter unsettled. Compliance functions overseeing Michigan kiosk operations should treat the current absence of a statewide regime, filled only by local ordinances, as a transitional state; either outcome (ban or licensing with surety bond and compliance-officer requirements) would materially change the control framework required. 2 evidence refs Board ### Michigan's legislature is actively contesting whether crypto kiosks will be banned or licensed statewide, a structural decision with direct bearing on any Michigan-facing virtual-currency retail footprint. The governance-level exposure is the binary outcome itself: SB 980's ban track and HB 5469/5470's licensing track are mutually exclusive, and the resolution will determine whether Michigan retail crypto-kiosk operations remain viable at all in the state. 2 evidence refs CTO ### Competing Michigan bills would either eliminate crypto kiosks outright or require a licensing and surety-bond architecture under the Money Transmission Services Act. Technical and platform planning for Michigan kiosk infrastructure should account for both outcomes: a full decommissioning scenario under SB 980, or a licensing-compliant architecture with compliance-officer oversight under HB 5469/5470, pending legislative resolution. 2 evidence refs Risk ### Michigan's unresolved kiosk legislation and pending money-transmission modernization bill together signal a state still calibrating its regulatory container for virtual-currency facilitation. The structural divergence between prohibition and licensing approaches for kiosks, combined with HB 5544's pending BSA/PATRIOT Act delegate-compliance provisions, represents an emerging-typology exposure concentration specific to Michigan that risk functions should track pending legislative resolution. 3 evidence refs Scenario sketches ### Kiosk ban prevails, pushing facilitation underground In this illustrative sketch, the Senate's prohibition model in SB 980 is enacted ahead of any House licensing compromise. Kiosk operators exit the licensed storefront channel entirely, and anecdotal reporting over subsequent quarters traces scam-payment facilitation activity shifting toward unregulated peer-to-peer and online off-ramps that fall outside the kiosk-specific ban, illustrating how a prohibition targeted at one facilitation form can displace rather than eliminate the underlying risk absent a parallel licensing or monitoring mechanism for adjacent channels. Illustrative scenario for analytical orientation only. Not compliance advice, not a prediction, and not a statement of observed fact. Standing trackers (T1–T6) Tracker Status Note T1 · Russian Sanctions-Evasion Architecture no_change T2 · EU AML Package / AMLA no_change T3 · FATF Grey List no_change T4 · Beneficial-Ownership Register Status no_change T5 · Crypto & Digital-Asset Integrity material_change T6 · Sanctions Regime Divergence no_change Registers ### Enforcement actions - 26 Jun 2025 - 30 Jun 2025 - 25 Mar 2026 - A Michigan doctor was sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating a $6.3 million Medicare fraud scheme, part of the broader national health-care fraud enforcement push cited in FinCEN's 2026 Health Care Fraud Advisory as a typology exemplar involving money-laundering conduct. 26 Jun 2025 - DOJ's largest-ever National Health Care Fraud Takedown charged 324 defendants across 50 federal districts and 12 state Attorneys General's offices for schemes involving more than $14.6 billion in intended losses, with a renewed emphasis on convergence of health-care fraud and modern laundering techniques including cryptocurrency — directly shaping the enforcement and BSA-reporting environment for Michigan-based providers and financial institutions. 30 Jun 2025 - FinCEN issued an Advisory urging financial institutions to be vigilant about health-care fraud schemes targeting Medicare, Medicaid and other federal/state health benefit programs, explicitly citing the Michigan physician's $6.3M scheme as an evidentiary typology, and directing enhanced SAR filing on associated laundering red flags. 25 Mar 2026 ### Sanctions changes - 20 Feb 2025 - 18 Dec 2025 - 18 May 2026 - 16 Jan 2026 - 1 Feb 2026 - US Departments of Treasury and State designated eight organizations, including six major Mexico-based drug cartels, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists, imposing new BSA/OFAC screening obligations on all US financial institutions, including Michigan-based banks and MSBs handling cross-border remittance and trade-finance flows. 20 Feb 2025 - On December 18, 2025, OFAC removed the remaining name from the Foreign Sanctions Evaders (FSE) list under E.O. 13608 (Iran/Syria-related), fully clearing that list — a national-level change affecting due-diligence screening obligations for all US financial institutions, including those in Michigan with Iran-adjacent trade-finance exposure. 18 Dec 2025 - OFAC issued Russia-related General License 134C, authorizing the delivery and sale of Russian-origin crude oil and petroleum products loaded on vessels as of April 17, 2026 — a licensing carve-out relevant to Michigan-based energy, logistics and trading firms handling permitted transactions. 18 May 2026 ### Regulatory horizon (register) - FinCEN/OFAC Joint NPRM — GENIUS Act AML/Sanctions Framework for PPSIs - FinCEN/OFAC Joint NPRM — GENIUS Act AML/Sanctions Framework for PPSIs - Money Transmission Modernization Act (HB 5544) - Michigan Money Transmission Modernization Act replacing 2006 PA 250 - Money Transmission Modernization Act (HB 5544 package) - Money Transmission Modernization Act (HB 5544/5548) - Cryptocurrency-kiosk regulation (competing SB 980 ban vs HB 5469/5470 licensing) - Money Transmission Modernization Act (HB 5544 package) - FinCEN AML/CFT program effectiveness-based reform finalization - GENIUS Act stablecoin implementing regulations enter into force - Next FATF Plenary review cycle bearing on US follow-up status ### Active schemes - [HIGH] Pig-butchering crypto investment fraud targeting Michigan residents - Unlicensed MSB remittance channels serving Michigan diaspora corridors - Dual-use technology diversion risk via Michigan manufacturing supply chains - [HIGH] Health-care fraud proceeds layering through Michigan-linked shell accounts Sources - [Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e279cb4fed20c7f559f559/2025.03.13.Independent.Review.Part.One.Report.Disclosure.Print.20pt.LF_0.1.pdf) - [https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-permanently-ends-beneficial-ownership-reporting-requirements-millions](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-permanently-ends-beneficial-ownership-reporting-requirements-millions) - [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/14/2026-16576/beneficial-ownership-information-reporting-requirement-revision](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/14/2026-16576/beneficial-ownership-information-reporting-requirement-revision) - [https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-issues-modified-southwest-border-geographic-targeting-order](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-issues-modified-southwest-border-geographic-targeting-order) - [https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/High-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/increased-monitoring-june-2026.html](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/High-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/increased-monitoring-june-2026.html) - [https://sigma.world/news/cambodia-anti-gambling-drive-fatf-grey-list/](https://sigma.world/news/cambodia-anti-gambling-drive-fatf-grey-list/) - [https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2026/04/stable-rules-for-stablecoins-treasury-proposes-aml-and-sanctions-framework-for-issuers](https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2026/04/stable-rules-for-stablecoins-treasury-proposes-aml-and-sanctions-framework-for-issuers) - [https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2026-HB-5544](https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2026-HB-5544) - [https://legiscan.com/MI/text/HB5544/id/3368332](https://legiscan.com/MI/text/HB5544/id/3368332) - [https://www.michigan.gov/difs/news-and-outreach/faq/consumer-finance/money-transmission](https://www.michigan.gov/difs/news-and-outreach/faq/consumer-finance/money-transmission) - [https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mi/michigan/news/2026/09/02/michigan-judge-blocks-kalshi](https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mi/michigan/news/2026/09/02/michigan-judge-blocks-kalshi) - [https://www.crainsdetroit.com/politics-policy/michigan-sues-kalshi-over-online-sports-betting](https://www.crainsdetroit.com/politics-policy/michigan-sues-kalshi-over-online-sports-betting) - [https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billanalysis/House/pdf/2026-HLA-5544-MXQS93C5.pdf](https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billanalysis/House/pdf/2026-HLA-5544-MXQS93C5.pdf) - [https://legiscan.com/MI/bill/HB5544/2025](https://legiscan.com/MI/bill/HB5544/2025) - [Michigan Gaming Control Board](https://www.michigan.gov/mgcb/news/2026/10/07/coinbase-agrees-to-halt-sports-related-event-contracts-in-michigan) - [https://www.csbs.org/csbs-money-transmission-modernization-act-mtma](https://www.csbs.org/csbs-money-transmission-modernization-act-mtma) - [Michigan Legislature](https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billengrossed/House/htm/2026-HEBH-5544.htm) - [FaisalKhan.com](https://faisalkhan.com/solutions/licensing/money-transmitter-license/michigan-money-transmitter-license) - [Hoodline](https://hoodline.com/2026/09/jackson-s-crypto-kiosk-ban-sets-a-90-day-removal-deadline-as-officials-cite-fraud-risks/) - [US Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Michigan (DOJ)](https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/five-individuals-including-three-doctors-indicted-charges-illegal-distribution) - [FATF](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/news/fatf-week-october-2026.html) - [Michigan Legislature](https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2026-HB-5544) - [Michigan House Fiscal Agency](https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billanalysis/House/pdf/2026-HLA-5544-MXQS93C5.pdf) - [Michigan Legislature](https://legislature.mi.gov/) - [Michigan House Fiscal Agency](https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billanalysis/House/pdf/2026-HLA-5469-B8WMLQD1.pdf) - [CDC Gaming](https://cdcgaming.com/brief/polymarket-us-agrees-to-halt-sports-event-contracts-in-michigan/) - [Press Releases | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/press-releases) - [Alerts/Advisories/Notices/Bulletins/Fact Sheets | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/advisoriesbulletinsfact-sheets) - [Advisories | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/advisoriesbulletinsfact-sheets/advisories) - [Financial Action Task Force Identifies Jurisdictions with Anti-Money Laundering, Combating the Financing of Terrorism, and Counter-Proliferation Finance Deficiencies | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/financial-action-task-force-identifies-jurisdictions-anti-money-laundering-5) - [Enforcement Actions | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/enforcement-actions) - [1 Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2026-05/FinCEN-Year-in-Review-2025.pdf) - [Last Updated: 6/23/2026 FinCEN’s 314(a) Fact Sheet](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/shared/314afactsheet.pdf) - [Key Changes in FinCEN’s Proposed Rule to Refocus AML/CFT Programs on](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2026-04/Key-Changes-Program-NPRM.pdf) - [FinCEN Renews Residential Real Estate Geographic Targeting Orders | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-renews-residential-real-estate-geographic-targeting-orders-0) - [FinCEN Advisory FIN-2025-A003 | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/advisories/fincen-advisory-fin-2025-a003) - [FinCEN GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING ORDER, April 14, 2025](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/shared/RRE-GTO-Order-April-14-2025-FINAL508.pdf) - [Geographic Targeting Order Covering TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY October 9, 2025](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2025-10/RRE-GTO-Order.pdf) - [FinCEN Issues Expanded Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-issues-expanded-southwest-border-geographic-targeting-order) - 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Chainalysis](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/russian-exchange-garantex-dismantled/) - [FinCEN Assesses Civil Money Penalty Against Michigan-Based Unregistered Money Transmitter | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-assesses-civil-money-penalty-against-michigan-based-unregistered-money) - [FinCEN-Advisory-CMLN-508.pdf](https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/advisory/2025-08-28/FinCEN-Advisory-CMLN-508.pdf) - [1 The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury) Financial](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2026-03/FinCEN-Advisory-Health-Care-Fraud.pdf) - [Chinese Money Laundering Networks: 2020](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2025-08/4000-10-INV-144549-S3F6L-FTA-CMLN-508.pdf) - [Frequently Asked Questions Anti-Money Laundering Program and Suspicious Activity Reporting Requirements for Insurance Companies | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidance/frequently-asked-questions-anti-money-laundering-program-0) - [Money Services Business (MSB) Registration | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/money-services-business-msb-registration) - [State Contact Information For MSBs](https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/msbstatecontactsfinal.pdf) - [Anti-Money Laundering Program and Suspicious Activity Reporting Requirements For Insurance Companies Frequently Asked Questions | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidance/anti-money-laundering-program-and-suspicious-activity) - [Fact Sheet on MSB Registration Rule | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/fact-sheet-msb-registration-rule) - [Guidance on Existing AML Program Rule Compliance Obligations for MSB Principals with Respect to Agent Monitoring | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidance/guidance-existing-aml-program-rule-compliance-obligations) - [GUIDANCE TO MONEY SERVICES BUSINESSES ON OBTAINING AND MAINTAINING BANKING SERVICES | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidance/guidance-money-services-businesses-obtaining-and) - [Important Information for MSBs | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/financial-institutions/money-services-businesses) - [Iran Sanctions | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/iran-sanctions) - [Sanctions Programs and Country Information | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information) - [Settlement Agreement between the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and Interactive Brokers LLC | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20250715) - [Settlement Agreement between the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and IPI Partners, LLC | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20251202) - [Recent Actions | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions) - [Settlement Agreement between the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and C.H. Robinson International Inc. | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20241213) - [36 | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/36) - [U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL](https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/934471/download?inline=) - [Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/russian-harmful-foreign-activities-sanctions) - [Civil Penalties and Enforcement Information | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/civil-penalties-and-enforcement-information) - [1 1. See 31 U.S.C. § 5312(a)(2); 31 CFR § 1010.100(t). 2.](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/shared/FinCEN_Alert_Pig_Butchering_FINAL_508c.pdf) - [2026 Crypto Crime Report: Scams](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-scams-2026/) - [2026 Crypto Crime Report – Illicit Crypto Trends & Typologies | TRM Labs](https://www.trmlabs.com/reports-and-whitepapers/2026-crypto-crime-report) - [Amid a scam crackdown, crypto giants keep fueling bitcoin ATMs - ICIJ](https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/amid-a-scam-crackdown-crypto-giants-keep-fueling-bitcoin-atms/) - [The 2026 Crypto Crime Report - Chainalysis](https://www.chainalysis.com/reports/crypto-crime-2026/) - [U.S. Crackdown on Southeast Asian Crypto Scam Centers](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/asian-scam-centers-crypto-fraud-april-2026/) - [Blockchain Legal Library](https://www.trmlabs.com/blockchain-legal-library) - [Crypto and Human Trafficking: 2026 Crypto Crime Report](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-human-trafficking-2026/) - [FinCEN Notice, FIN-2025-NTC1, August 4, 2025](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2025-08/FinCEN-Notice-CVCKIOSK.pdf) - [Global Crypto Policy Review Outlook 2025/26 Report | TRM Labs](https://www.trmlabs.com/reports-and-whitepapers/global-crypto-policy-review-outlook-2025-26) - [Law enforcement, banks warn of money laundering gaps in major US crypto bill - ICIJ](https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/law-enforcement-banks-warn-of-money-laundering-gaps-in-major-us-crypto-bill/) - [FinCEN Notice, FIN-2025-NTC1, August 4, 2025](https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/FinCEN-Notice-CVCKIOSK.pdf) - [2025 Crypto Regulatory Round-Up](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2025-crypto-regulatory-round-up/) - [Crypto ATM operator Bitcoin Depot files for bankruptcy - ICIJ](https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/crypto-atm-operator-bitcoin-depot-files-for-bankruptcy/) - [Retailers keep cashing in on crypto ATMs as scams surge - ICIJ](https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/retailers-keep-cashing-in-on-crypto-atms-as-scams-surge/) - [Crypto Bill Seen Hindering Fraud Prosecutions, States Warn - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/crypto-bill-seen-hindering-fraud-prosecutions-states-warn) - [Crypto regulatory affairs: US Treasury report highlights role of blockchain analytics](https://www.elliptic.co/blog/crypto-regulatory-affairs-us-treasury-report-highlights-role-of-blockchain-analytics) - [Stablecoin as a medium of exchange on a blockchain-based transaction network](https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/12141769) - [Stablecoin as a medium of exchange on a blockchain-based transaction network](https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11055677) - [Stablecoin as a medium of exchange on a blockchain-based transaction network](https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11797955) - [MONEY LAUNDERING NATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT – ANNEXES A-C](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Methodsandtrends/Money-Laundering-National-Risk-Assessment-Toolkit-Annexes.html) - [Pot Banking Legislation Won’t Have Much Impact: Cannabis Weekly - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-08/pot-banking-legislation-won-t-have-much-impact-cannabis-weekly) - [123 The illicit drug industry operates outside the law. Its](https://www.unodc.org/pdf/WDR_2005/volume_1_chap2.pdf) - [FinCEN Issues Guidance to Financial Institutions on Marijuana Businesses | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-issues-guidance-financial-institutions-marijuana-businesses) - [An efficient Search Tool for an Anti-Money Laundering Application of an Multi-national Bank's Dataset](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.02031) - [BSA Expectations Regarding Marijuana-Related Businesses | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidance/bsa-expectations-regarding-marijuana-related-businesses) - [Supplemental Alert: FinCEN and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security Urge Continued Vigilance for Potential Russian Export Control Evasion Attempts | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/supplemental-alert-fincen-and-us-department-commerces-bureau-industry-and) - [Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/932036/download?inline=) - [FinCEN and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Issue Joint Notice and New Key Term for Reporting Evasion of U.S. Export Controls Globally | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-and-bureau-industry-and-security-bis-issue-joint-notice-and-new-key-term) - [FinCEN & BIS Joint Notice, FIN-2023-NTC2, ...](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/shared/FinCEN_Joint_Notice_US_Export_Controls_FINAL508.pdf) - [13. 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[FinCEN (US Department of the Treasury)](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/shared/FinCEN_Alert_Pig_Butchering_FINAL_508c.pdf) - [Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)](https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/iran-sanctions) - [Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)](https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions) - [US Department of the Treasury](https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/246/2026-NMLRA.pdf) - [Financial Action Task Force (FATF)](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/countries/detail/United-States.html) - [International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)](https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/amid-a-scam-crackdown-crypto-giants-keep-fueling-bitcoin-atms/) Coverage gaps fim-int-2026-07-05-G001: Direct DOJ press-release URL for th… fim-int-2026-07-05-G001: Direct DOJ press-release URL for the Michigan physician Medicare-fraud sentencing, cited only via FinCEN's March 2026 Health Care Fraud Advisory, would allow independent T1 corroboration rather than reliance on a single secondary FinCEN citation. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-05-G002: Confirmation of whether FinCEN's Ma… fim-int-2026-07-05-G002: Confirmation of whether FinCEN's March 2025 interim final rule exempting domestic reporting companies from CTA BOI reporting has been finalized, revised, or challenged following its 60-day comment period would resolve current uncertainty in the T4 beneficial-ownership trajectory. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-05-G003: A confirmed date for the FinCEN civ… fim-int-2026-07-05-G003: A confirmed date for the FinCEN civil money penalty action against Halal Depot of Wyoming, Michigan would clarify whether this unlicensed-MSB enforcement exemplar falls within the 18-month baseline window or is a historical illustrative case. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-05-G004: Michigan operates no dedicated stat… fim-int-2026-07-05-G004: Michigan operates no dedicated state financial-intelligence unit; a state-specific reporting channel or DIFS enforcement-statistics disclosure would improve independent verification of Michigan-specific illicit-finance scale beyond incidental citation in national DOJ/FinCEN releases. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-05-G005: Confirmation of whether Michigan ha… fim-int-2026-07-05-G005: Confirmation of whether Michigan has enacted or is considering crypto-ATM-specific consumer-protection or transaction-limit legislation, as several other US states have, would resolve the current monitoring gap in the T5 crypto-integrity tracker. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-05-G001: No Mexico- or Colombia-specific mon… fim-int-2026-08-05-G001: No Mexico- or Colombia-specific money-laundering finding was located this cycle despite active search; a direct FATF or national FIU publication would resolve this gap. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-05-G002: Cambodia's absence from the FATF in… fim-int-2026-08-05-G002: Cambodia's absence from the FATF increased-monitoring list is sourced only to a Tier-4 secondary tracker; direct FATF primary-source confirmation would upgrade confidence. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-05-G003: The FinCEN NPRM's primary regulator… fim-int-2026-08-05-G003: The FinCEN NPRM's primary regulatory text was not directly retrieved this cycle, capping confidence at Assessed rather than High. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-05-G004: D4 conflict-finance and standalone … fim-int-2026-08-05-G004: D4 conflict-finance and standalone D3 enabler-jurisdiction analysis bound directly to US-MI were thin this cycle given the gambling-regulation-heavy source environment. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-21-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-08-21-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): T1 Russian sanctions-evasion and Houthi/Yemen sub-component not actively re-verified this cycle given US-MI-bound search allocation. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-21-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-08-21-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D3'}): Colombia (Tier D) not reached this cycle; recorded as awaiting_primary_source rather than a no-material-change determination. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-21-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-08-21-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D3'}): D3 enabler-jurisdictions and D4 conflict-finance domains received no dedicated query this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-21-G004 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-08-21-G004 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D2'}): Michigan-specific beneficial-ownership registry variance against the federal CTA baseline was not independently verified this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-04-G001: Tier D watch jurisdictions (Cambodi… fim-int-2026-10-04-G001: Tier D watch jurisdictions (Cambodia, Laos, Mexico, Colombia) were not checked this cycle; search budget was concentrated on the bound US-MI jurisdiction. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-04-G002: No Tier-1 court-docket primary sour… fim-int-2026-10-04-G002: No Tier-1 court-docket primary source was retrieved for the Kalshi/Coinbase litigation this cycle; only press coverage of the filings/order was available. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-04-G003: D1-D4 and D6 global standing-tracke… fim-int-2026-10-04-G003: D1-D4 and D6 global standing-tracker beats were not actively re-swept this cycle beyond the bound jurisdiction focus. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-11-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-11-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D5'}): Final enactment/signature status of HB 5544 (Money Transmission Modernization Act) not independently re-confirmed against legislature.mi.gov this cycle; a third-party tracker's conflicting 'Became Law' badge could not be corroborated. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-11-G002: Tier D jurisdiction watch (Cambodia… fim-int-2026-10-11-G002: Tier D jurisdiction watch (Cambodia, Laos, Mexico, Colombia) was not searched this cycle because this dispatch is bound to the single jurisdiction US-MI. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-18-G001: No Michigan-specific D1-D4, D6, D8 … fim-int-2026-10-18-G001: No Michigan-specific D1-D4, D6, D8 financial-integrity development was located this cycle; this reflects module-first query discipline scoped to US-MI rather than a sweep failure. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-18-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-18-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D7'}): Whether the Senate committee will act on HB 5544 before the fall legislative session recesses is not yet known. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-25-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-25-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): MGCB's October 13, 2026 board-meeting outcomes had not been published as of this cycle, so any further CFTC-registered-platform enforcement posture update could not be verified. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-25-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-25-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D7'}): FATF October 28-30, 2026 Plenary outcome for the Mexico and US mutual evaluations is pending and not yet published; revisit next cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-25-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-25-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D5'}): HB 5544's House Fiscal Agency analyses carry a discrepancy on the repeal-effective date for the old MTSA (one cites 2026-07-01, another 2027-07-01); not resolved this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-11-01-G001: Tier-D mandatory watch (KH/LA/MX/CO… fim-int-2026-11-01-G001: Tier-D mandatory watch (KH/LA/MX/CO) and the global D1-D4/D6 sweep were not independently re-run for this bound-jurisdiction (US-MI) pass this cycle. [open] fim-int-2026-11-01-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-11-01-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D7'}): Whether HB 5544/5548 has seen any Senate floor action beyond the 2026-07-01 committee referral was not independently re-verified this cycle. [open] FIM-GAP-001 (D2): Michigan has no state-level beneficial-own… FIM-GAP-001 (D2): Michigan has no state-level beneficial-ownership verification at LARA business-entity formation. FinCEN's March 2025 interim final rule exempting all domestic reporting companies from Corporate Transparency Act BOI reporting means Michigan-formed LLCs and corporations now face no beneficial-ownership disclosure requirement at either the state or federal level, absent a foreign nexus. FIM-GAP-002 (D3): Michigan's licensed cannabis industry (rec… FIM-GAP-002 (D3): Michigan's licensed cannabis industry (recreational and medical, under the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act) remains largely unbanked and cash-intensive because federal Schedule I status continues to deter depository institutions from providing banking services, absent SAFE Banking Act passage. FIM-GAP-003 (D6): Michigan operates no dedicated state finan… FIM-GAP-003 (D6): Michigan operates no dedicated state financial-intelligence unit; nearly all Michigan-specific financial-crime enforcement visibility in the current window derives incidentally from national DOJ/FinCEN releases (e.g., citation of Michigan cases in national health-care-fraud or crypto-scam advisories) rather than from a standalone Michigan reporting channel. ## Evidence #### Confidence-tiered claims Michigan state court issued a preliminary injunction against KalshiEx LLC, with geofencing and a $500,000-per-day penalty, over sports-event contracts alleged to be unlicensed gambling. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Coinbase Financial Markets Inc., which partners with Kalshi, preemptively sued the State of Michigan in federal court; the suit continues. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Passed Michigan House 97-10 on June 25, 2026; pending in Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection Committee since July 1, 2026 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Michigan's AML architecture remains state money-transmitter licensing under DIFS (Money Transmission Services Act, MCL 487.1001 et seq.), layered under the federal BSA/FinCEN MSB-registration regime (Form 107, CTR/SAR filing); no change found this cycle beyond pending HB 5544 status. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Public Act 149 of 2019 remains the statutory basis for licensed sports betting in Michigan, cited in the Kalshi litigation as the standard allegedly violated by unlicensed sports-event contracts. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Remains the operative state money-transmitter licensing perimeter for crypto exchange/custody businesses [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Passed Michigan House 97-10 on 25 June 2026; referred to Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection Committee 1 July 2026; no further tracked action [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source States may regulate prediction-market sports-event contracts like gambling; underlies state enforcement leverage over CFTC-registered platforms in Michigan [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Uncertain · 1 source Would require MSB licensees transmitting virtual currency to hold like-kind virtual currency of the same volume obligated to consumers [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Would repeal the current Money Transmission Services Act effective July 1, 2027 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source As-passed-House text excludes exchange/transfer/custody of virtual currency not involving transfer of legal tender from money transmission [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Jackson banned crypto kiosks (effective 2026-10-22, 90-day removal window); Port Huron adopted annual kiosk-operator registration (due 2026-10-01) [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Five individuals including three doctors indicted on 2026-10-22 for conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances and related money-laundering offences tied to cash-only clinics [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source October 28-30, 2026 Plenary expected to discuss new-round mutual evaluation reports for Mexico and the United States [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source SB 980 reported favorably by Senate Finance Committee 2026-10-14; would ban cryptocurrency kiosks statewide with civil fines of $2,000-$5,000 first violation, $5,000-$10,000 subsequent. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source HB 5544 passed House 97-10 on 2026-06-25, referred to Senate Finance Committee 2026-07-01; H-2 substitute pushes repeal/replacement of 2006 MTSA to 2027-07-01, new act effective 2027-01-01, requires authorized delegates to comply with BSA and USA PATRIOT Act. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Polymarket US will cease offering sports event contracts in Michigan and all sports positions. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Statewide ban on installing or operating any cryptocurrency kiosk, with civil fines of $2,000-$5,000 (first violation) and $5,000-$10,000 (subsequent violations) [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source HB 5544 (H-2 substitute) would repeal the current Money Transmission Services Act effective 2027-07-01 and bind authorized delegates to Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT Act compliance; remains in Senate Finance Committee after 2026-07-01 referral [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Would license and regulate virtual-currency kiosk operators under the Money Transmission Services Act framework, with compliance-officer and surety-bond requirements, diverging from SB 980's outright ban approach [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source