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During BSAAG Meeting, Bankers Ask for Revisions to Fraud, Currency Reports

By Brian Monroe

Bankers are asking the U.S. Treasury Department's financial intelligence unit to allow for batch filings of currency reports and relax the dollar threshold at which they must identify suspected frauds. The discussions came last month as part of a Washington, D.C. meeting of the so-called "Delta Team," an informal subset of the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG) formed last autumn by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) as part of a broader review of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Representatives of the financial industry asked FinCEN to raise the $5,000 threshold for fraud-related suspicious activity reports (SARs) to at least...

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