FILE – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen speaks, Sept. 20, 2023, in New York. Yellen is announcing that 100,000 businesses have signed up for a new database that collects ownership information on firms intended to help unmask shell company owners. Yellen says the database will send the message that “the United States is not a haven for dirty money.” (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)