Taking cues from growing regulatory scrutiny by the U.S. government, lawyers and compliance officers at financial institutions are taking steps to keep their organizations free of money laundering activity. Specifically, they are keeping a closer eye on customers who would use their accounts to make dirty money look clean, which could lead to getting busted under the Bank Secrecy Act or other related statutes.

Though much of the antimoney laundering (AML) compliance focus is on banks and financial firms, there’s another industry where lots of money changes hands fast, providing opportunities for customers to launder it: casinos. An evening playing the slot machines or hitting the blackjack table sounds like just fun and games, but casinos aren’t gambling on AML. When it comes to this area of the law, just letting the chips fall where they may is simply too big a risk.

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