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Financial Institutions Adjusted Quickly to Correspondent Rules: FinCEN

By Matt Squire

Financial institutions adjusted well to August 2007 requirements that they scrutinize some correspondent relationships, according to a study by the U.S. Treasury Department. The survey, by the department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), said that the financial institutions queried had little trouble with the rules, first proposed in January 2006. The regulations were the final stage in the implementation of Section 312 of the Patriot Act. The regulations required banks to more closely scrutinize correspondent relationships with foreign banks that have an offshore license or a banking license from some countries deemed to be at high risk of money laundering....

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