Administrative Rulings

Administrative letter rulings drafted by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) are issued pursuant to our authority as the administrator of the Bank Secrecy Act, if the facts and circumstances, issues, and analyses that appear in an administrative letter ruling are of general interest to financial institutions then the letter ruling is published on our website. Published letter rulings often express an opinion about a new issue; apply an established theory or analysis to a set of facts that differs materially from facts or circumstances that have been previously considered; or provide a new interpretation of Title 31 of the United States Code, or any other statute granting FinCEN authority. A summary of the variety of regulatory releases, which also includes an outline of the effect of the various releases on financial institutions that are subject to the regulatory provision at issue, is available here [HTML | PDF]

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Dear [ ]:
This letter responds to your letter dated June 4, 2001, on behalf of [ ] (the “Bank”),requesting a determination whether the Bank is required under 31 U.S.C. § 5313, and itsimplementing regulations found at 31 C.F.R. § 103.22, to aggregate multiple currencytransactions for…

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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”),…

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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…

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This ruling, formerly known as 92-2, was posted to the website on May 18, 2010; it was previously published via the Federal Register. Please note that references in this ruling to CTR exemptions and form numbers are outdated.

Facts:

31 U.S.C. 5313 -- Reports on Domestic Coins and…

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This ruling, formerly known as 89-5, was posted to the website on May 18, 2010; it was previously published via the Federal Register. Please note that this ruling pre-dates the customer identification rules that have since been implemented.

Facts

No. 1. Linda Scott has had an…

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This ruling, formerly known as 89-2, was posted to the website on May 18, 2010; it was previously published via the Federal Register. Please note that references in this ruling to CTR exemptions and form numbers are outdated.

Facts

X Company (``X'') operates two fast-food…

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Facts

X State Bank (the "Bank") and Acme Armored Car Service ("Acme") have entered into a contract which provides for Acme to collect, transport and process revenues received from Bank customers:

Each day, Acme picks up cash, checks, and deposit tickets from Little Z, a non-…

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