On November 4, 2016, the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network published technical amendments to anti-money laundering (AML) regulations implemented pursuant to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). The final FinCEN rule, which became effective November 4, 2016, removes and replaces outdated references to obsolete BSA forms, removes references to outdated forms of recordkeeping storage media and replaces other outdated terms and references.

The text of the final rule is available at: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-11-04/pdf/2016-26557.pdf.

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