Guidance

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing this advisory to highlight loan modification/foreclosure rescue scams so that financial institutions may better assist law enforcement when filing Suspicious Activity Reports. This guidance is consistent with the Department of the…

To assist depository institutions in completing the DOEP, FinCEN Form 110, FinCEN is providing the following guidance for items affected by this final rule.

• Depository institutions should disregard any references to biennial renewals that appear on the face of FinCEN Form 110 (…

Registration Renewal Deadline for Certain Money Services Businesses is December 31, 2008

Update to Notice (January 9, 2009)

Please be advised that if you properly completed and mailed your registration form (revised August 2008…

Registration Renewal Deadline for Certain Money Services Businessesis December 31, 2008

If your business is registered as a money services business (MSB), and you have continued to operate as an MSB, you must renew your registration by December 31 every two years (after…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") is issuing this interpretive guidance to clarify whether a person who conducts transactions in currency or other commodities is a money services business for purposes of complying with the Bank Secrecy Act and its implementing regulations.…

This guidance is intended to assist casinos and card clubs¹ with the reporting of suspected money laundering, terrorist financing and related financial crimes. This guidance contains examples of circumstances or "red flags" - based on actual reports, the observations of examiners and…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") is issuing this guidance to assist money services businesses ("MSBs") in correctly completing FinCEN Form 109, Suspicious Activity Report by Money Services Business ("SAR-MSB"). On October 10, 2007, FinCEN issued guidance entitled, "…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is issuing this guidance to financial institutions so that they may better assist law enforcement when filing Suspicious Activity Reports regarding financial transactions that may involve senior foreign political figures, acting individually or through…

This guidance originally was issued on October 31, 2005. We have updated the guidance provided in these frequently asked questions at question 7, further coordinating the answer with guidance provided in the final anti-money laundering program rule for insurance companies that was published in…

Dear [ ]:

I am responding to your letter of January 24, 2008 to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, requesting a ruling as to whether your company [ ] is a money services business. Specifically, you have asked us to determine whether your company is a currency dealer or exchanger…