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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 […]

SAR CHANGES

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced changes to the Suspicious Activity Reports Electronic Data Fields on February 2, 2017. On January 26, 2018 FinCEN issued an Important Notice to E-Filers that announces an update to the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR). The 2018 announcement states, ” the FinCEN Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) available on the BSA E-Filing System will be updated to adhere to the changes defined in Federal Register notice posted on February 2nd, […]