BriberyMatters has regularly covered increasing risks of corruption in the United States, tied both to recent regulatory and enforcement changes, and to President Trump’s extensive business interests. One issue took the headlines on August 11, when the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) made permanent the rule ending beneficial ownership reporting for all domestic entities and US persons under the Corporate Transparency Act...

Since January 2025, the federal government has seemingly stepped back from a range of good governance, transparency, and anti-corruption measures, from the February 2025 executive order pausing FCPA enforcement, to the March 2025 rule by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) exempting nearly all US companies from Corporate Transparency Act beneficial-ownership reporting, to the shifting enforcement priorities of the Foreign Agents Registratio