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The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)announced today a final rule and a proposed regulation aimed at significantly reducing thenumber of reports required to be filed by banks for large currency transactions. These tworegulations reflect a major effort to re-…

Treasury under Secretary for Enforcement Raymond W. Kelly has issued two GeographicTargeting Orders (GTOs) against money remitters in the New York Metropolitan area andPuerto Rico to stop drug money laundering to the Dominican Republic."The targeted money remitters in New York send more than $500…

The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) hasissued the first comprehensive study of money services businesses and their potentialvulnerability to money laundering. The study, commissioned by FinCEN and conducted by theconsulting firm of Coopers & Lybrand,…

The Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will hold four public meetings in July and August to give members of the financial services industry an opportunity to discuss the three proposed regulations announced on May 21, 1997. The regulations are aimed at preventing and detecting…

The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced today that Barnett Banks,Inc. (Barnett) has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve charges thatit failed to file reports required by the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).Barnett is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida…

Calling the "U.S. commitment to combating money laundering at all levels of government outstanding," the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the 26-nation organization created by the G-7 to address the global problem of money laundering, released a summary of its Mutual Evaluation of the U.S. today…

In keeping with regulatory reform goals, the TreasuryDepartment's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issuedtoday a revised form designed to help casinos report largecurrency transactions.Internal Revenue Service Form 8362 (Rev. July 1997), known asthe Currency Transaction Report by…

Good afternoon. Thank you for being here today for thisimportant announcement.With me are Ray Kelly, Under Secretary for Enforcement, SamBanks, Deputy Commissioner of the Customs Service, Stan Morris,Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and EdFederico, Deputy Assistant Commissioner…

FATF Begins Discussions with the E-Money Payment Systems Industry For the second time since its inception, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world’s leader in promoting anti-money laundering controls, has released a public report on existing money laundering trends around the globe. The…

A rule proposed today by the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) would require the reporting of a certain class of foreign bank drafts brought into or out of the United States. The rule was proposed under the terms of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), one of the…