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Robert W. Werner, Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), announced today the selection of Jamal El-Hindi as Associate Director for Regulatory Policy and Programs. Mr. El-Hindi will oversee the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s regulatory and compliance functions and…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have reached an agreement to facilitate the sharing of information by OFHEO of its examination findings regarding actual or suspected mortgage fraud with FinCEN.…

Robert W. Werner, Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), announced today the selection of Patrick Conlon as Associate Director for Analysis and Liaison. Mr. Conlon will oversee FinCEN's analysis of BSA data in support of its law enforcement, intelligence, regulatory and…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced today that Frosty Food Mart consented to the assessment of a civil money penalty in the amount of $10,000. Frosty Food Mart is a money services business located in Tampa, Florida.

FinCEN determined that Frosty Food Mart failed to…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced it is extending the comment period of its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks input from both the money services business industry and the banking industry on the issue of money services businesses obtaining access to…

Under a final rule announced today by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), mutual funds are required to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on suspicious transactions. Mutual funds must start filing SARs 180 days after the date of the publication of the final rule in the…

WASHINGTON - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) announced today that each has assessed a $10 million civil money penalty against BankAtlantic of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. OTS also issued a Cease and…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced today that Edward E. Street and the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma consented to the assessment of civil money penalties, in the amounts of $1.5 million and $1 million, respectively. The actions represent the first enforcement actions against…

William D. Langford, Jr., Associate Director for the Regulatory Policy and Programs Division, is leaving the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at the end of April to pursue a career as Director of Global AML, Senior Vice President, at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, FinCEN Director…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network today announced it is issuing a survey to banking and financial services industry trade groups seeking information about the feasibility and impact of implementing a cross-border wire transfer reporting requirement under the Bank Secrecy Act. The survey,…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comments from both the money services business industry and the banking industry on the issue of money services businesses obtaining appropriate access to banking services. Today's…

U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow today named Robert W. Werner as the new Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. Werner currently serves as the Director of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

"OFAC and…

William J. Fox announced today that he has resigned his position as Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and accepted a position with Bank of America as a Senior Compliance Executive for financial crimes. His last day as Director will be February 3, 2006.

Mr. Fox was…