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The aim of this paper is to present a legal and regulatory environment that affects US foreign banks’ activities and constitutes a advisory framework for foreign banks in compliance process that operates in the US by analyzing enforcement actions on the banking sector. In this context, it is given wide coverage to US banking sector regulatory bodies and enforcement actions and content analysis on FED's written agreements with foreign banks between 2009-2018 years are carried out. According to the results, U.S. regulators demand policies and measures for preventing terrorism financing, anti-money laundering and tracking international financial transactions from foreign banking organizations. Foreign banking organizations (FBOs) should establish customer due-dilligence systems that are supported with developed IT systems; investigate each financial transaction according to the potential risk level and review and update customer due-dilligence and financial activity monitoring systems regularly.

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