Finanse publiczne · 22/07/2003

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Money Services Business Survey

The Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN"), has been engaged in a multi-year education program to disseminate information to the Money Services Business ("MSB") industry regarding regulations that require MSBs to register with FinCEN, and to file Suspicious Activity Reports. MSBs include money transmitters, issuers, sellers, and redeemers of money orders, traveler's checks, and stored value, check cashers, and currency exchangers. FinCEN places a high priority on effective and broad- reaching initiatives to facilitate the education of MSBs and their agents in their responsibilities under the Bank Secrecy Act. FinCEN proposes to conduct a survey that is intended to provide data that can be used to evaluate the success of the MSB education program, and to measure the extent to which the MSB industry's knowledge and understanding of the new regulations has changed since an initial survey was conducted in September, 2001. The survey will consist of questions contained in the September 2001 survey, as well as additional questions designed to gauge perceptions of the MSB education program and its overall effectiveness. This request for comments is bei