Financial Crimes Enforcement Network June 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, FinCEN invites comments on the proposed renewal, without change, of existing information collection requirements related to Bank Secrecy Act regulations that require certain banks, brokers or dealers in securities, futures commission merchants, introducing brokers in commodities, and mutual funds (each a "covered financial institution") to establish and maintain due diligence programs for foreign financial institutions and for private banking accounts. The required due diligence programs include: appropriate, specific, risk- based, and, where necessary, enhanced policies, procedures, and controls reasonably designed to enable the covered financial institution to detect and report, on an on-going basis, money laundering conducted through or involving any correspondent accounts established, maintained, administered or managed by such covered financial institution in the United States for a foreign financial institution; and policies, procedures, and controls that are reasonably designed to detect and report any known or suspected money laundering or suspicious activity conducted through or involving any private banking account that is established, maintained, administered, or managed in the United States by such covered financial institution. The due diligence programs are required to be part of covered financial institutions' anti-money laundering programs. This request for comments is made pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA).