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OCC Bulletin
June 24, 2003 |
Suspicious Activity Report Beginning July 1, 2003, national banks and federal branches and agencies may begin using a revised SAR when they detect a known or suspected violation of federal law or a suspicious transaction related to a money-laundering activity or a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.   |
OCC Bulletin
January 27, 2006 |
Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering The attached document provides a joint statement on sharing suspicious activity reports with controlling companies. |
OCC Bulletin
May 26, 2004 |
Suspicious Activity Reporting Interagency Advisory: Federal Court Reaffirms Protections for Financial Institutions Filing Suspicious Activity Reports. |
OCC Bulletin
August 12, 2002 |
International Banking Activities Capital Equivalency Deposits A new rule amends the OCC's regulation regarding the capital equivalency deposits (CED) that foreign banks with federal branches or agencies must establish and maintain. |
OCC Bulletin
October 20, 2003 |
Bank Secrecy Act Examination Procedures The examination procedures allow examiners to tailor the examination scope according to the reliability of the bank's compliance management system and the level of risk assumed by the institution. |
OCC Bulletin
May 7, 2003 |
Changes to Part 5 The interim rule amends 12 CFR 5.2 to expressly provide that the OCC may permit national banks to make any class of filings electronically and refers national banks to the Comptroller's Licensing Manual to find information about the filings that are available for electronic submission. |
OCC Bulletin
August 24, 2005 |
Community Reinvestment Act The revisions to the Community Reinvestment Act regulations, effective September 1, 2005, include a new test -- the community development test -- for intermediate small banks. |
OCC Bulletin
August 17, 2000 |
Bank Secrecy Act An interim rule amended the exemption provisions for filing currency transaction reports contained in the Bank Secrecy Act... |
OCC Bulletin
July 29, 2002 |
Customer Identification Programs This bulletin transmits a notice of a proposed regulation that requires all banks to implement a customer identification program (CIP) that is appropriate given the bank's size, location, and type of business. |
OCC Bulletin
December 23, 2005 |
Bank Security Act/Anti-Money Laundering Process for taking administrative enforcement actions against banks based on BSA violations. |
OCC Bulletin
September 19, 2005 |
Hurricane Katrina The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has issued guidance to assist national banks and their customers affected by Hurricane Katrina. |
OCC Bulletin
June 5, 2003 |
International Activities of National Banks; U.S. Activities of Federal Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banks Notice of proposed rule making rules, policies, and procedures for corporate activities; international banking activities |
Bank Systems & Technology
April 28, 2008
Paul L. Lee |
Integrating Systems Essential to AML and SAR Compliance To follow regulators' requirements, banks must leverage and coordinate compliance, risk management and IT department efforts. |
OCC Bulletin
August 19, 2002 |
Bank Supervision Operations Policies & Procedures Manual (PPM) 5310-3 (REV), dated July 30, 2001, describes the OCC's policy for taking appropriate enforcement action in response to violations of law, rules, regulations, final agency orders and/or unsafe and unsound practices or conditions. |
OCC Bulletin
July 5, 2001 |
Assessment of Fees: Independent Credit Card Banks; Lower-Rated Institutions Under the rule, a national bank will be deemed an "independent credit card bank" if it engages primarily in credit card operations and is not affiliated with a full-service national bank. The OCC will continue to assess independent credit card banks based on balance sheet assets... |
OCC Bulletin
August 15, 2006 |
Assessment of Fees: Final Rule The attached final rule amends part 8 of the OCC's rules concerning the timing of payments of OCC assessments. The effective date of the final rule is August 24. |
Bank Systems & Technology
July 30, 2008
Kristie Cattafi |
Accuity Releases Suspicious Activity Reporting Control System Accuity, a provider of payment routing data, AML screening software and services, has added the Suspicious Activity Reporting Control System to its suite of compliance solutions, enabling financial institutions to manage the filing of Suspicious Activity Reports. |
OCC Bulletin
March 29, 2000 |
Assessment of Fees for National Banks and District of Columbia Banks A proposed rule on assessment of fees would enable the OCC to capture better the costs of supervising national trust banks that are not affiliated with a full service national bank (independent trust banks)... |
OCC Bulletin
December 6, 2005 |
One-Year Post-Employment Restrictions for Senior Examiners This final rule implements new post-employment restrictions for Comptroller of the Currency senior examiners of national banks. |
OCC Bulletin
October 6, 2005 |
Electronic Filing and Disclosure of Beneficial Ownership Reports This final rule, which applies to national banks that register their securities with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, amends the OCC's rules governing application of Securities Exchange Act disclosure rules to national banks (12 CFR 11). |
OCC Bulletin
December 6, 2005 |
Interim Final Rule: Assessment of Fees The interim final rule revises the current process for assessment collection. |
OCC Bulletin
April 18, 2006 |
Final Rule: Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has issued a final rule that imposes special measures against Commercial Bank of Syria (CBS), including its subsidiary, Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank. |
OCC Bulletin
December 1, 2006 |
Notice of Comptroller of the Currency Fees All national banks and federal branches and agencies should be aware of changes in fees charged by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for the year 2007. These changes are effective January 1, 2007. |
OCC Bulletin
December 1, 2005 |
Notice of Comptroller of the Currency Fees for Year 2006 Several permanent changes to the assessment collection process will be implemented beginning with the assessment that normally would be due January 31, 2006. These changes are based on revisions to the assessment regulations recently adopted by the OCC |
OCC Bulletin
August 30, 2005 |
Examiner Ethics The attached proposed rule, issued jointly with the other federal banking agencies, concerns new post-employment restrictions for senior examiners of national banks. |
| OCC Bulletin |
Fair Credit Reporting Medical Information Regulations Section 411 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act prohibits creditors from obtaining or using medical information pertaining to a consumer in connection with any determination of the consumer's eligibility, or continued eligibility, for credit. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 12, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Gov. Spitzer Exposed by Bank's Suspicious Activity Report Technology Although credit for exposing Spitzer's illicit trysts has been attributed to cell phone records, new evidence shows that his bank's suspicious activities reports also played a vital roll in blowing his cover. |
OCC Bulletin
February 13, 2003 |
Rules, Policies, and Procedures for Corporate Activities; Bank Activities and Operations; and Real Estate Lending and Appraisals The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published the attached notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register on February 7, 2003 (NPRM). The NPRM amends 12 CFR parts 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 28, and 34 of its regulations. |
OCC Bulletin
February 22, 2001 |
Disclosure of CRA Agreements The law requires each party to a covered agreement entered into after November 12, 1999, to disclose the agreement to the appropriate banking agency... |
OCC Bulletin
April 28, 2005 |
Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Frequently Asked Questions: Final Customer Identification Program Rule |
U.S. Banker
May 2007
Lee Conrad |
Community Banks Struggle To Know 'Indirect' Clients Indirect channels to customers, particularly check-cashing services, reduce a bank's control of the customer and exposes it to potential money laundering. New products are stepping in to help. |
OCC Bulletin
December 22, 1999 |
Bank Activities and Operations, Investment Securities, Corporate Activities A new final rule updates and clarifies the OCC's regulations regarding Bank Activities and Operations (formerly, Interpretive Rulings), Investment Securities, and Rules, Policies, and Procedures for Corporate Activities... |
Bank Systems & Technology
October 30, 2007
Michael Powers |
JPMorgan Chase Implements Electronic Filing for Bank Secrecy Act Reports JPMorgan Chase has taken e-filing a step further by centralizing the process within the organization using a single system to prepare and file SARs. |
OCC Bulletin
September 14, 2001 |
Consumer Protections for Depository Institution Sales of Insurance These rules implement Section 305 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and apply to retail sales practices, solicitations, advertising, or offers of any insurance product or annuity by a depository institution... |
Wall Street & Technology
July 27, 2004
Jessica Pallay |
Analyzing AML Audits After years of preparation, regulators are ready to see the fruits of Wall Street's hard work on anti-money laundering. |
CIO
July 1, 2002
Daintry Duffy |
Terror Transactions Bedevil Banks The burdens the new USA Patriot Act places on banks and financial institutions are creating a surge of interest in technologies designed to help companies identify potentially suspicious activity. |
OCC Bulletin
February 15, 2001 |
Guidelines Establishing Standards For Safeguarding Customer Information The purpose of this bulletin is to alert you to the joint-agency issuance of the attached final "Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information" and to highlight provisions of these guidelines... |
OCC Bulletin
January 22, 2007 |
Community Reinvestment Act Two separate revisions are made to the CRA regulation in this rulemaking. |
Managed Care
May 2002
Melanie Brody |
Insurers Obligated To Fight Money-Laundering Schemes Federal antiterrorist legislation enacted last October requires that health insurance companies, along with an array of other financial institutions, should have adopted and implemented programs to combat money laundering by April 24, 2002 |
OCC Bulletin
January 15, 2004 |
Reporting and Disclosure Requirements for National Banks with Securities The final rule, entitled "Reporting and Disclosure Requirements for National Banks With Securities Registered Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; Securities Offering Disclosure Rules," amends 12 CFR 11 and 12 CFR 16. |
OCC Bulletin
May 15, 2000 |
Infrastructure Threats -- Intrusion Risks This bulletin provides guidance to financial institutions on how to prevent, detect, and respond to intrusions into bank computer systems... |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 27, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Spitzer Exposed by Bank's Anti-Money Laundering Technology The discovery of Eliot Spitzer's involvement with a prostitution ring can be attributed in great part to routine anti-money laundering processes and technologies. |
Bank Technology News
March 2003
Michael Grebb |
Banks dig in along the war's new front line in a high-stakes bid to stop money laundering Renewed federal efforts to stop money laundering and terrorist financing have strapped the banking industry with potentially more paperwork, obligations and record-keeping burdens than at perhaps any time in its history. |
OCC Bulletin
February 3, 2004 |
Amendment to Part 5 The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published the attached final rule in the Federal Register on January 2, 2004, amending its rules, policies, and procedures for corporate activities. The final rule adopts without change an interim rule that was published on April 14, 2003. |
U.S. Banker
November 2007
Paul Hyde et al. |
Mergers Create Mid-Sized Have-Nots Nearly two decades of steady banking industry mergers have created a landscape dotted with a group of banks struggling to survive in an undifferentiated no-man's land. |
BusinessWeek
August 15, 2005 |
A Talk with New York's Banking Watchdog New York Superintendent of Banking Diana Taylor says there's a happy medium for regulation at the state and national level. |
OCC Bulletin
April 25, 2005 |
Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Joint statement on providing banking services to money services businesses. |
OCC Bulletin
June 9, 1999 |
Disclosure of Information The OCC may make nonpublic OCC information available to a supervised entity and to other persons, as the Comptroller, in his sole discretion, may deem necessary or appropriate, without a request for records or testimony... |
U.S. Banker
April 2002 |
Tougher On The Big Boys Being bigger is not necessarily better for corporations seeking loans from their banks. A study by the Association for Financial Professionals indicates that banks are putting heavy pressure on their biggest borrowers to throw more business the banks' way. Or else: No credit... |
OCC Bulletin
November 1, 2001 |
Third-Party Relationships This bulletin provides guidance to national banks on managing the risks that may arise from their business relationships with third parties... |
