02/21/2021
If the customer attempts mortgage fraud should we tell BSA?
02/07/2021
Some taverns/bars are involved in "Sporting Pools" aka: Football Pools, Office Pools, Super Bowl Pools, etc.
Does FinCEN encourage SARs to be reported for a business involved in such activity? Gambling is not legal in my area.
11/08/2020
Is there a way to know if any SARs submitted to FinCEN by my institution were among those leaked in the recent data breach?
06/21/2020
What types of back-office documents do banks image and store electronically?
04/26/2020
There has been quite a bit of debit card fraud occurring at the bank with various customers. Should this require a SAR filing regardless of the dollar amount?
05/26/2019
When preparing a SAR narrative, if the business account relationship contains multiples accounts (at least 8) and the suspicious activity was only detected on two, are we permitted place emphasis on those affected accounts and establish that none of the remaining accounts had flags or suspicious activity detected?
12/09/2018
My question is in regards to a returned item and the date that should be reported on the SAR. We were recently advised that the suspicious date for the returned item should be the date of the original deposit and not the date it was returned. But isn't the item being returned the suspicious nature of the transaction so shouldn't we use the returned date instead?
11/18/2018
As it pertains to the FinCEN guidance in 2016 relating to Cyber-events and Cyber-enabled crime, does the requirement of identifying a suspect still apply, or should banks be filing SARs on cyber-enable crime(i.e., identity theft) if the $5k threshold is met even if a suspect is not identified?
11/04/2018
Can Financial Institutions disclose on a SAR that a subject appeared on FinCEN's 314a list?
10/21/2018
Is a canabidiol (CBD) business legal at the Federal level. I understand it is legal in all 50 states but unsure about the Federal level. Would it be treated the same as a marijuana related business where a continuing SAR would be required?