Q. It is an established practice in the futures industry that futures commission merchants engage in transactions through give-up arrangements, whereby a futures commission merchant, acting as an executing broker1, executes an order on an exchange for a commodity customer,2…
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that they are jointly issuing guidance on the application of the customer identification program (CIP) regulation to give-up arrangements in the futures industry. Today'…
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. While I know many of you, let me introduce myself to others. I am Bill Baity the Acting Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or as we are called, FinCEN. As you know, FinCEN serves as the financial intelligence unit for the United States and…
More than 2,000 members of the credit union industry participated Tuesday in the first-ever web-based seminar hosted jointly by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Entitled "BSA: A Year in Review and Setting the Table for 2007,"…
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) announced today that FinCEN and the IRS will offer a series of one-day Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) educational outreach sessions in March 2007. The outreach will be hosted…