VIENNA, Va. – James. H. Freis, Jr., Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, hosted the 27th plenary of the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG) on Wednesday. At the meeting, his first since becoming FinCEN’s Director in April, Director Freis pledged to work closely with all…
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Chairman Watt, Ranking Member Miller and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, on behalf of our Director and the men and women of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), we appreciate this opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the utility of information provided by…
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.…
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'…
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…