Guidance

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I am responding to your letter, dated October 21, 2010, for an administrative ruling defining motor vehicles, vessels, aircraft, and farm equipment as it relates to exempting the cash transactions of a customer from the requirement to file a currency transaction report ("CTR…

This document provides guidance interpreting the requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA") regulations¹ as they apply to the casino and card club industries in the United States. FinCEN additionally published frequently asked questions for casinos and card clubs as FIN-2007-G005 on…

This document revises the guidance originally published on August 31, 2009, to implement the following changes:

• Relevant citations have been updated to reflect the final rule transferring FinCEN's regulations from 31 CFR § 103 to 31 C.F.R. Chapter X, effective March 1, 2011, and…

Today, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) began to accept the new Currency Transaction Report (CTR) and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) into FinCEN's BSA E-Filing System. Together, these two new reports will replace FinCEN Form 104 (CTR), FinCEN Form 103 (CTR by Casinos), and all…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") is issuing this guidance to clarify, for currency transaction reporting purposes, the aggregation of multiple transactions conducted by businesses with common ownership. Subsequent to a ruling on this issue, ¹ FinCEN received…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) is issuing these Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) to assist providers and sellers of prepaid access in understanding the scope of the final rule imposing certain recordkeeping and reporting requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act (the “BSA…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) is issuing this guidance in response to questions related to the reporting requirements under 31 C.F.R. § 1010.350, Reports of Foreign Financial Accounts, with respect to a former employee who had signature or other authority over, but no…