While the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s effort to calculate and evaluate the burden of filing Suspicious Activity Reports is a good first step, FinCEN needs to do more to fully grasp the costs and benefits of SAR filing, ABA said in a comment letter today.
With a bipartisan majority of 336 to 71, the House today voted to add ABA-advocated anti-money laundering provisions to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.
A recent estimate by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the total cost to file currency transaction reports “significantly underestimates” the burden faced by financial institutions, ABA said in a letter to the agency today.
The OCC today cautioned banks to be vigilant about compliance risks that could arise as a result of their response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network today issued guidance for financial institutions on how they can conduct due diligence on hemp-related businesses and on what types of information and documentation they may be required to collect from these businesses to comply with Bank Secrecy Act requirements.
In a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee leaders this weekend, ABA joined six other financial trade organizations calling for the inclusion of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 as part of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.
Bank Secrecy Act reporting institutions annually spend roughly $206 million and 5.4 million hours of work investigating, evaluating cases and filing Suspicious Activity Reports, according to a new analysis from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network today recognized several state and federal law enforcement agencies for their work using information reported by financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act in their criminal investigations.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network today issued an advisory on medical scams related to the coronavirus pandemic—the first in a new series of warnings about COVID-19-related financial crimes—as well as a notice on filing reports of COVID-19-related suspicious activities.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council today released long-awaited updates to its Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering examination manual.