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| Federal Register Notice
Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Report of International Transportation of Currency or Monetary Instruments
| Administrative Ruling
FinCEN Issues Ruling (FIN-2009-R001) on Whether Certain Operations of a Service Provider to Prepaid Stored Value Program Participants is a Money Services Business

FIN-2009-R001Issued: January 22, 2009Subject: Whether Certain Operations of a Service Provider to Prepaid Stored Value Program Participants is a Money Services Business

Dear [ ]:

I am responding to your letter of September 20, 2005 to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. You…

| Administrative Ruling
FinCEN Issues Ruling (FIN-2008-R012)on Whether a Money Services Business Must Establish and Maintain Separate Deposit Accounts for its Separate Check Cashing and Money Transmission Lines of Business

FIN-2008-R012Issued: December 11, 2008Subject: Whether a Money Services Business Must Establish and Maintain Separate Deposit Accounts for its Separate Check Cashing and Money Transmission Lines of Business

Dear [ ]:

I am writing in response to your letter of May 7, 2008 to…

| Federal Register Notice
Interpretive Guidance – Sharing Suspicious Activity Reports by Securities Broker-Dealers, Mutual Funds, Futures Commission Merchants, and Introducing Brokers in Commodities with Certain U.S. Affiliates
| Federal Register Notice
Confidentiality of Suspicious Activity Reports
| Federal Register Notice
Interpretive Guidance – Sharing Suspicious Activity Reports by Depository Institutions with Certain U.S. Affiliates
| News
FinCEN to Expand Financial Institutions’ Ability to Share Information Internally on Suspicious Activity

VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has proposed revised rules and new guidance that permit certain affiliates of depository institutions as well as broker-dealers in securities, mutual funds, futures commission merchants, and introducing brokers in commodities, to…

| Federal Register Notice
Sharing Suspicious Activity Reports by Depository Institutions with Certain U.S. Affiliates – Proposed Guidance
| Federal Register Notice
Confidentiality of Suspicious Activity Reports – Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (RIN 1506–AA99)
| Federal Register Notice
Sharing Suspicious Activity Reports by Securities Broker-Dealers, Mutual Funds, Futures Commission Merchants, and Introducing Brokers in Commodities with Certain U.S. Affiliates – Proposed Guidance