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| Federal Register Notice
Imposition of Special Measure against Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern.
| News
FTC News Release: FTC Charges Marketers with Billing Consumers Without Their Consent; Tricked People Who Were Seeking Payday Loans
| Guidance
Preparation Guidelines for completing the March 2011 version of FinCEN Form 103, Currency Transaction Report by Casinos.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") is issuing this guidance to assist casinos and card clubs in correctly completing FinCEN Form 103, Currency Transaction Report by Casinos (CTR-C). On August 1, 2008, FinCEN issued a revised version of the CTR-C that became mandatory for use by all…
| Guidance
Preparation Guidelines for completing the March 2011 version of FinCEN Form 101, Suspicious Activity Report by the Securities and Futures Industries.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") is issuing these guidelines to assist the Securities and Futures Industry in correctly completing FinCEN Form 101, Suspicious Activity Report by the Securities and Futures Industries (“SAR-SF”). On October 10, 2007, FinCEN issued guidance titled…
| Administrative Ruling
FinCEN Form 105 – Currency and Other Monetary Instruments Report
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Dear []: This responds to your letter of May 14, 2010, in which you request an administrative ruling concerning the proper completion of FinCEN Form 105 - Currency and Other Monetary Instruments Report ("CMIR"). Your letter, essentially, raises two questions…
| News
Department of Justice News Release: Former TBW Financial Analyst Pleads Guilty in $1.5 Billion Fraud Scheme
| News
FinCEN Releases Commercial Real Estate Fraud Analysis and Advisory
VIENNA, Va. – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released its analysis of suspicious activity reports (SARs) that call attention to possible fraud in the commercial real estate financing arena. The analysis, Commercial Real Estate Financing Fraud Suspicious Activity Reports by…
| News
FinCEN’s 2010 Mortgage Fraud Report
VIENNA, Va. – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in its new report, Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filings In Fourth Quarter and Calendar Year 2010, today released full year data showing the number of suspicious activity reports involving mortgage loan fraud (MLF SARs) increased 4 percent…
| Testimony
PREPARED REMARKS OF JAMES H. FREIS, JR., DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Good morning. Today, I think that it is important that I focus my remarks on what FinCEN is trying to do to address a vulnerability in our Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) regime as it relates to mortgage brokers, and how this effort fits into FinCEN’s overall initiative to combat…
| Speech
PREPARED REMARKS OF JAMES H. FREIS, JR. DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Good morning. Today, I think that it is important that I focus my remarks on what FinCEN is trying to do to address a vulnerability in our Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) regime as it relates to mortgage brokers, and how this effort fits into FinCEN’s overall initiative to combat…