Guidance

Guidance is intended to clarify obligations or respond to questions of general applicability that arise under the Bank Secrecy Act and implementing regulations at 31 CFR Chapter X. FinCEN alerts, advisories, notices, bulletins, and fact sheets are located here. Guidance regarding beneficial ownership reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act can be found here. Other information pertaining to the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 is available here.
| Depository Institutions

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I am responding to your letter, dated October 21, 2010, for an administrative ruling defining motor vehicles, vessels, aircraft, and farm equipment as it relates to exempting the cash transactions of a customer from the requirement to file a currency transaction report ("CTR…

| Casinos

This document provides guidance interpreting the requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA") regulations1 as they apply to the casino and card club industries in the United States. FinCEN additionally published frequently asked questions for casinos and card clubs as FIN-2007-G005 on…

| Depository Institutions

This document revises the guidance originally published on August 31, 2009, to implement the following changes:

  • Relevant citations have been updated to reflect the final rule transferring FinCEN's regulations from 31 CFR § 103 to 31 C.F.R. Chapter X, effective March 1, 2011, and as…
| Casinos, Depository Institutions, Insurance Industry, Money Services Businesses, Precious Metals/Jewelry Industry, Securities and Futures

Today, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) began to accept the new Currency Transaction Report (CTR) and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) into FinCEN's BSA E-Filing System. Together, these two new reports will replace FinCEN Form 104 (CTR), FinCEN Form 103 (CTR by Casinos), and all…

| Depository Institutions, Money Services Businesses, Securities and Futures

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") is issuing this guidance to clarify, for currency transaction reporting purposes, the aggregation of multiple transactions conducted by businesses with common ownership. Subsequent to a ruling on this issue, 1 FinCEN received…

| Depository Institutions, Money Services Businesses

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) is issuing these Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) to assist providers and sellers of prepaid access in understanding the scope of the final rule imposing certain recordkeeping and reporting requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act (the “BSA…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) is issuing this guidance in response to questions related to the reporting requirements under 31 C.F.R. § 1010.350, Reports of Foreign Financial Accounts, with respect to a former employee who had signature or other authority over, but no…