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June 2016

Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (FFETF)

FinCEN continues to engage heavily within the FFETF as co-chair of the Training and Information Sharing Committee and at the working group level. Based on our strong foundation of sharing information with our law enforcement partners, we are working diligently to support the efforts of our Federal, State, and local colleagues who are working hard to investigate and prosecute this criminal activity.

What is money laundering?

With few exceptions, criminals are motivated by one thing-profit. Greed drives the criminal, and the end result is that illegally-gained money must be introduced into the nation's legitimate financial systems. Money laundering involves disguising financial assets so they can be used without detection of the illegal activity that produced them. Through money laundering, the criminal transforms the monetary proceeds derived from criminal activity into funds with an apparently legal source.

MSB Registration Web site

The MSB Registration Web site contains entities that have registered as Money Services Businesses (MSBs) pursuant to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regulations at 31 CFR 1022.380(a)-(f), administered by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

The Web site, which is current as January 27, 2012, contains data on 39,713 registered MSBs. This is an increase of 1,080 MSB registrations from the December 7, 2011 total of 38,633 .