VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced the assessment of a civil money penalty against Zions First National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah, for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Zions, without…
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The Egmont Group, the global association of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), has released a White Paper entitled, Enterprise-wide STR Sharing: Issues and Approaches, designed to…
As announced in December, FinCEN today launched a new MSB Registration Web site to improve the availability of MSB registration information. The MSB Registration Web site replaces the MSB Registration List. As part of the…
On June 22, 2007, the U.S. Senate passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 40 supporting the goals and ideals of observing the National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness on January 11 of each year to raise…
VIENNA, Va. – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released its third quarter 2010 mortgage fraud report, Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filings. The report shows that suspicious activity reports (SARs)…
VIENNA, Va. – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced an assessment of a $12,000 civil money penalty against Baltic Financial Services, Inc. of Montclair, New Jersey, for non-compliance with…
VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released two mortgage fraud reports entitled Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filings, which together cover the first six months of 2010; one report covers January…
VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today proposed a requirement that non-bank residential mortgage lenders and originators, like other types of financial institutions, establish anti-money laundering (AML) programs and comply with suspicious activity report (SAR)…
VIENNA, Va. – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released a final rule – Confidentiality of Suspicious Activity Report as well as an advisory, and two guidance documents, and a Notice…
VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released a new study analyzing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) citing identity theft that shows while suspected cases of identity theft are on the rise, vigilant financial…
VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced the pending publication of the reorganization of its rules and regulations by centralizing them in their own new Chapter X of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The rule streamlines the Bank Secrecy…
VIENNA, Va. - In support of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's information technology modernization efforts, FinCEN has submitted a notice to the Federal Register that requests comments from law enforcement, the…
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced that it will hold an informational Webinar on Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. EST that will both highlight the benefits of the Bank Secrecy Act Electronic Filing System (…
VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced that it has submitted for publication in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would require certain depository…