The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has statutory responsibility as administrator of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and under multiple sections of the USA PATRIOT Act1, to safeguard the financial system from the abuses of financial crime, including terrorist financing, money laundering, and other illicit activities.

Gaming institutions covered by FinCEN's regulations submitted 74,816 Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos and Card Clubs (SAR-C) filings from 2004 through June 2011. Dollar amounts reported in these filings totaled $1.77 billion. Annual filings consistently increased, while total dollar amounts fluctuated from year to year. The steady increase in SAR-C filings during the study period paralleled a significant expansion of gaming operations across the United States.

Identity theft is a crime rarely committed as an end in itself. Instead, identity theft is nearly always a means of facilitating another crime usually a financial crime that enriches the perpetrator at the expense of individuals, businesses, financial institutions, or government agencies."

This report focuses on identity theft in the securities and futures industries. Based on Suspicious Activity Report by the Securities and Futures Industries (SAR-SF) filings, it describes recent patterns and trends of SAR-SF reporting and identifies methods by which identity thieves may access and abuse investment, retirement, and trust accounts to defraud individual account holders and/or securities firms.

This report highlights key findings of an assessment conducted by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of Suspicious Activity Report filings in the one-year period from May 2, 2006 through May 1, 2007 by insurance companies regarding suspected money laundering and other financial crimes.

This report detailed key findings of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's assessment of Suspicious Activity Reports filed from May 2, 2007, through April 30, 2008, by insurance companies and includes some preliminary observations about SARs filed from May 2008 through October 2009.

Following a large increase in depository institution Suspicious Activity Report filings on mortgage loan fraud, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Netwirk issued in a report in November 2006 describing trends and patterns shown in SARs reporting suspected mortgage loan fraud filed between April 1, 1996 and March 31, 2006.

This Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual for Money Services Businesses provides guidance to examiners for performing Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) examinations.

Since 1995, the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN) has been examining the potential regulatory and law enforcement implications of emerging technology- driven payment mechanisms, such as smart card Internet-based electronic cash, electronic banking, and Internet banking. This initiative was undertaken within the context of FinCEN's mission to support and strengthen domestic and internal anti-money laundering efforts.

Section 6302 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 requires, among other things, that the Secretary of the Treasury study the feasibility of "requiring such financial institutions at the Secretary determines to be appropriate to report to the financial institutions as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to report to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network certain cross-border electronic transmittals of funds, if the Secretary determines that reporting of such transmittals is reasonably necessary to conduct the efforts of the Secretary against money laundering...