On Friday, September 7, 2018, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a ruling which grants certain exceptions for financial institutions from the Beneficial Ownership Rule. Specifically the ruling provides financial institutions relief from the obligations under the Beneficial Ownership Requirements of identifying Legal Entity Customers in the case of: •A rollover of a certificate of deposit (CD) •A renewal, modification, or extension of a loan (e.g., setting a later payoff date) that does not […]
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EXTENSION OF LIMITED EXCEPTION TO BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP RULE
On August 8, 2018 Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a 30-day extension to the limited exception to the Beneficial Ownership Rule On May 16, 2018, FinCEN issued a 90-day limited exceptive relief to covered financial institutions from the obligations of the Beneficial Ownership Rule for Legal Entity Customers (Beneficial Ownership Rule) for certain financial products and services (i.e., certificate of deposit or loan accounts) that were established before the Beneficial Ownership Rule’s Applicability […]
SAR- E-FILING SYSTEM CHANGES
As promised earlier this month on July 27th, 2018, FinCEN released the following changes to the BSA E-Filing System production environment: FinCEN posted the new discrete entry form version (v1.2) of the FinCEN Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) for download/submission; FinCEN began accepting batch files containing the new FinCEN SAR in the new FinCEN 2.0 XML schema format; FinCEN updated the FinCEN CTR XML batch schema to prohibit certain unwanted characters/formatting for all elements values in […]
FINCEN ISSUES BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP DELAY IN REGARDS TO RENEWALS AND ROLLOVERS
On Wednesday, May 16th, FinCEN issued a ruling that provides covered institutions a 90-day period of limited exceptive relief to their requirements under the Beneficial Ownership Rule. This exception applies to products and services that are set to automatically rollover or renew (CD or loan accounts) that were established before May 11, 2018. This exception came just five days after the mandatory compliance date of the Beneficial Ownership Rule had passed. This relief period will […]
NEW CUSTOMER DUE DILIGENCE AND BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP EXAMINATION PROCEDURES
On May 11, 2018, the effective date of the Beneficial Ownership requirements, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued new examination procedures on the final rule, “Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Financial Institutions,” issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on May 11, 2016. The examination procedures apply to banks, savings and loan associations, savings associations, credit unions, and branches, agencies, and representative offices of foreign banks. The new examination procedures replace those […]