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FinCEN Delays Implementation of Revised Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) Forms

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today filed a Federal Register notice announcing the delayed implementation of certain revised Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) forms that were scheduled to become effective on June 30, 2007.…

| Federal Register Notice
Suspicious Activity Reporting; Release of Revised Suspicious Activity Reports
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FinCEN and CFTC Staff Issue Guidance on Application of CIP Rules to Give-Up Arrangements

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that they are jointly issuing guidance on the application of the customer identification program (CIP) regulation to give-up arrangements in the futures industry. Today'…

| Guidance
Application of the Customer Identification Program Rule to Future Commission Merchants Operating as Executing and Clearing Brokers in Give-Up Arrangements

Q. It is an established practice in the futures industry that futures commission merchants engage in transactions through give-up arrangements, whereby a futures commission merchant, acting as an executing broker1, executes an order on an exchange for a commodity customer,2…

| Federal Register Notice
Proposed Renewal Without Change Imposition of Special Measure Against Commercial Bank of Syria, Including Its Subsidiary Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank, as a Financial Institution of Primary Money Laundering Concern
| Federal Register Notice
Amendment to the Bank Secrecy Act Regulations Imposition of Special Measure Against Banco Delta Asia, Including its subsidiaries Delta Asia Credit Limited and Delta Asia Insurance Limited, as a Financial Institution of Primary Money Laundering Concern
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Treasury Finalizes Rule Against Banco Delta Asia
| Special Measure
Banco Delta Asia
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Secretary Paulson Names James H. Freis, Jr. as the New Director of FinCEN
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REMARKS OF WILLIAM F. BAITY ACTING DIRECTOR FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. While I know many of you, let me introduce myself to others. I am Bill Baity the Acting Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or as we are called, FinCEN. As you know, FinCEN serves as the financial intelligence unit for the United States and…