Financial Crimes Enforcement Network November 2016 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Imposition of Special Measure Against North Korea as a Jurisdiction of Primary Money Laundering Concern
Document Number: 2016-27049
Type: Rule
Date: 2016-11-09
Agency: Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FinCEN is issuing this final rule to prohibit U.S. financial institutions from opening or maintaining a correspondent account for, or on behalf of, North Korean banking institutions. The rule further prohibits U.S. financial institutions from processing transactions for the correspondent account of a foreign bank in the United States if such a transaction involves a North Korean financial institution, and requires institutions to apply special due diligence to guard against such use by North Korean financial institutions.
Technical Amendments to Various Bank Secrecy Act Regulations
Document Number: 2016-26557
Type: Rule
Date: 2016-11-04
Agency: Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FinCEN is issuing this final rule to make a number of technical amendments. This final rule updates various sections of the regulations implementing the Bank Secrecy Act (``BSA'') by removing or replacing outdated references to obsolete BSA forms, removing references to outdated recordkeeping storage media, and replacing several other outdated terms and references.
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