https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act They may be fraudulent; they may be not. Regardless, they have a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act They may be fraudulent; they may be not. Regardless, they have a lot to lose by revealing their banking partners to the world. The United States probably used the Bank Secrecy Act to force large American banks to not send money to accounts associated with Bitfinex. If Bitfinex reveals its banking partners for Tether, then they risk getting cut off from those partners or those partners getting cut off from western banking.