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Currency Transaction Reporting: Completing a CTR and Aggregation

Dear [ ]:
This responds to your letter dated February 25, 2000, on behalf [ ] (the “Bank”), to theFinancial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). In that letter, you requested a ruling on theapplication of the rules relating to the filing of a currency transaction report (“CTR”),…

SAR Activity Review Issue 2
In the Matter of Rainbow Casino Vicksburg
Feedback on Suspicious Activity Reporting Released at ABA/ABA Money Laundering Seminar

A mechanism for providing feedback to financialinstitutions about a key anti-money laundering reporting requirement onsuspicious activity was put in place with the release today of TheSAR Activity Review – Trends, Tips and Issues.

The…

In the Matter of Casa De Cambio Rega
SAR Activity Review Issue 1
Currency Transaction Reporting: Guidance on Completing CTR Section A "Person(s) on Whose Behalf Transaction(s) is Conducted

Dear [ ]:
You have asked how [ ](the "Bank") should properly report certain currency transactionson Form 4789 (a "CTR") in the circumstances described below. Your question was originallyraised in a letter dated August 16, 2000, which was forwarded to the Financial CrimesEnforcement Network…

CTR Exemption Regulation Amended to Include MMDAs

On July 28, 2000, FinCEN published an Interim Rule in the Federal Register (65 FR 46356-46361) amending the CTR exemption regulation at 31 CFR Section 103.22(d). Provisions of this Interim Rule became effective on July 31, 2000. The Interim Rule addresses several issues brought to…

Amendment to the Bank Secrecy Act Regulations—Exemptions From the Requirement to Report Transactions in Currency
In the Matter of D & S Check Cashing, Inc. and Michael Rose