Director James H. Freis, Jr., Associate Director Bess Michael of the International Programs Division, and other FinCEN representatives participated this past week in the 19th annual plenary meeting of the Egmont Group of financial intelligence units (FIUs), held in Yerevan, Armenia. An FIU is…
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VIENNA, Va. – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released a final rule, Definitions and Other Regulations Relating to Money Services Businesses, that more clearly defines which businesses qualify as…
VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced that it has developed an electronic filing system that will accept Form TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). E-Filing is a quicker, cheaper, more secure, and more reliable way for…
VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced that Money Services Businesses are now able to register with FinCEN using the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) E-Filing System.
BSA E-Filing is a free, web-based electronic…
VIENNA, Va. – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today, in its First Quarter 2011 Mortgage Loan Fraud (MLF) analysis, reported that the number of MLF suspicious activity reports (SARs) rose to 25,485 up 31…
Good afternoon. I think this conference - which brings together financial institutions, law enforcement and regulators - is a perfect forum for us to have a productive discussion on the work we are doing at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network - known as FinCEN, as well as the value to…
Vienna, VA — The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today made a further announcement that a small subset of individuals with only signature authority over certain foreign financial accounts who are required to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) with respect…
As part of a joint effort to improve the quality of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data, FinCEN and the IRS have recently updated the validation of zip code fields to cover city, state, and zip code. The validation has been enhanced to verify that the city and state are consistent with the first five (5…