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#1329999 - 01/25/10 04:30 PM Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing
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Question - our marking group changed our GiftCard vendor - now, when we make a sale of an open end gift card we are unable to do any monitoring because the system does not record the name, address or other pertinant information - only the card number and amount - our former system retained all this information for us.

Do other banks sell open end gift cards - if so, how do you handle OFAC and 314a - these two issues keep popping up as a problem.

HOwever, our marketing director - thinks they know it all - and says WalMart, WalGreens, and others don't record informtion - so why do we have to. geez....

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#1330541 - 01/25/10 10:49 PM Re: Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing Tryin-2-Comply
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I just read somewhere that the CARD Act of 2009 is putting requirements on FinCEN to implement CIP requirements with Store Value Cards.

Anyone heard of this?

I've heard we will be required to document ID, run OFAC, 314(a), etc ...

My bank is looking into Payroll cards - I could use all the help I can get.
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#1330762 - 01/26/10 02:48 PM Re: Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing WonderWoman
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Here is a good source of information on prepaid cards.

http://www.nbpca.com/

Be sure to check out

http://www.nbpca.com/docs/NBPCA-AML-Recommended-Practices-080220.pdf
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#1331129 - 01/26/10 07:05 PM Re: Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing WonderWoman
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Originally Posted By: (not as) newbsa
I just read somewhere that the CARD Act of 2009 is putting requirements on FinCEN to implement CIP requirements with Store Value Cards.

Anyone heard of this?

I've heard we will be required to document ID, run OFAC, 314(a), etc ...

My bank is looking into Payroll cards - I could use all the help I can get.


I have heard the same thing.

Luckily for us the 3rd party vendor we use does all of that once its entered into the system. We only sell gift and travel cards to customers.
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#1331154 - 01/26/10 07:24 PM Re: Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing J2C
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Maybe this will help explain the Card Act of 2009 in relation to prepaid cards.

http://www.philadelphiafed.org/payment-c...rd-act-2009.pdf
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#1331168 - 01/26/10 07:30 PM Re: Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing WonderWoman
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Section 503 of the CARD Act says that by February 22, 2010 Treasury is required to issue "regulations in final form implementing the Bank Secrecy Act, regarding the sale, issuance, redemption, or international transport of stored value, including stored value cards".

That's not very detailed, but if they meet the time deadline, we'll know the details in less than a month.

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#1331337 - 01/26/10 09:02 PM Re: Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing Ted Dreyer
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Thanks to all who added info.....

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#1331485 - 01/26/10 10:28 PM Re: Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing Ted Dreyer
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Well I'm sure that will just further delay the updating of the BSA/AML Exam Manual, huh???? So much for annual updates to the exam since its been 2007 since the last update!!!
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#1331523 - 01/26/10 11:01 PM Re: Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing AnnRoy
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I heard that it is due out in March, but who knows. I wouldn't place bets on anything these days!
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#1331624 - 01/27/10 01:34 PM Re: Gift Cards - ughhh - Marketing BrendaC
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Originally Posted By: BrendaC
I heard that it is due out in March, but who knows. I wouldn't place bets on anything these days!


I was on a call last week with ABA and they said they believe that it should be out by the end of this month. The speaker also said that he would not be surprised if it didn't though.

By the time they get this one out, it will be time for the next one!
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