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4/29/2004 USA PATRIOT Act Monitor News Release: Foreign
Exchanger With U.S. Bank Account Not Required To Register as MSB
FinCEN Ruling 2004-1, Definition of Money Services Business (Foreign-Located
Exchanger With U.S. Bank Account), considers whether a foreign currency exchanger
with its principal place of business in a foreign country must register as a
Money Services Business under 31 CFR 103.41. The exchanger dies not have a physical
presence in the U.S., but maintains an account with a U.S. financial institution
upon which it makes deposits and purchases negotiable instruments denominated
in U.S. dollars. The foreign exchanger has a policy of not transmitting U.S.
dollars in any form to the U.S. for customers. It serves as a local intermediary
in the foreign country for MSBs located and operated in the U.S., but does not
conduct transactions with them in the U.S. These MSBs with a U.S. presence would
have to register, but the foreign exchanger with only a bank account is not
required to do so, according to the ruling. The ruling will be discussed in
the next issue of the Monitor.
The USA PATRIOT Act Monitor and the news releases prepared by the Monitor staff
are services of the Civic Research Institute, publisher of Money Laundering,
Terrorism, and Financial Institutions, by Raymond Banoun and John Ensminger.
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