Trump Directs Treasury to Issue Banking Guidance on Illegal Immigrants

President Trump on Tuesday directed the Treasury Department and other financial regulators to issue guidance on banking services to illegal immigrants. U.S. financial system, according to a White House fact sheet. U.S. law to target money laundering and terrorism financing.

It requires financial institutions to maintain paper trails by keeping detailed records and reporting certain transactions to the government to help detect and prevent financial crimes.

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Trump also signed a separate order on Tuesday that was intended to streamline regulations and promote financial innovation and collaboration between fintech firms, financial institutions and regulatory agencies. That order directs regulators to identify practices that could be updated to better facilitate innovation and greater competition in the provision of financial services, according to a fact sheet.

It also calls on the Federal Reserve to conduct a similar review and evaluate frameworks governing access to reserve bank payment accounts. Bessent will issue a formal advisory to financial institutions identifying red flags and suspicious activity patterns.

The order is far less stringent than previously reported plans that would have required banks to collect customers' citizenship information. The new proposal faces pushback from some banking groups and privacy activists, who say it opens up customers' personal information to the federal government.