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Treasury Cuts Crypto Exchange MEXC Off From US Financial System
美国财政部将加密交易所MEXC排除出美国金融体系
FinCEN's order against MEXC forces U.S. institutions to cut ties, raising compliance costs and questions about how exchanges police illicit finance.
Judgment
Compliance officers at U.S. banks, custodians and payment processors must now decide whether to sever every transfer path to and from MEXC, because FinCEN's order bars any U.S. transfer with the exchange — a lost-counterparty and re-screening cost with no de minimis carve-out.
Basis
FinCEN, acting under Treasury's Operation Economic Outcast, issued the order against MEXC; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's department says the exchange facilitated $16 billion in illicit finance tied to Iran, North Korea and Russia. The mechanism is correspondent access rather than a fine: the order bars U.S. institutions from any transfers to or from MEXC, so banks, custodians and payment processors must cut routing instead of pricing the risk. Because the prohibition runs in both directions, compliance teams cannot isolate clean flows — they have to drop MEXC-linked counterparties entirely and absorb blocked settlements plus the cost of re-screening clients who used the exchange.
- Illicit finance (Treasury claim)$16 billion
Unclear The source does not give the order's effective date or duration, nor whether MEXC can contest it or offboard U.S. users to have it lifted.
Next Check whether FinCEN publishes the order text with an effective date, and whether MEXC announces U.S. user offboarding or a delisting timeline.