Please accept my apology if this is not posted in the correct forum. I would like to know the steps to take upon receipt of a Writ of Maritime Attachment. These are routinely received by fax from law firms in the area and have never had any applicability to our bank, but simply ignoring them does not seem correct. What are other banks doing with these?

This is just a sketch, mind you,....
1. establish a point of receipt and a process for receipt. This might be the same as what you do today for receipt of subpoenas. In our institution, they go straight to a dedicated fax in our compliance department.
2. establish and maintain a log of service. You will be served everyday until the attachment is satisfied or vacated. Yours is not the only bank being served, so this takes less time than you'd think.
3. establish an account for holding seized funds.
4. Interdict wire transfer or other funds transfers and seize funds where the entity is found. In our institution, we simply created a custom list in our sanction scanning software.
5. document and report.
6. track staff time devoted to the activity. Your bank isn't getting paid for the attachments, but you *will* pay for ignoring them.