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#1769551 - 12/20/12 09:36 PM CTR - Courier Information (Private)
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Hi,

Just wondering if any of you have provided any reference material to your business customers regarding the requirements to obtain ID information on couriers that are contracted by the customer (NOT the Bank)?

We are getting requests for more information from our corporate customers. What specific reference did you provide to them if any?

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#1769603 - 12/21/12 11:05 AM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Banker Chick
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FinCEN Pamphlet

FinCEN Armored Car Ruling

The Armored Car ruling goes around the barn twice on the way to the house; you may have to highlight the relevant sentence(s). The pamphlet is more clear and equally applicable where the person conducting the transaction is a non customer acting on someone else's behalf.
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#1779964 - 01/25/13 06:06 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Banker Chick
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I may have missed something obvious. We have several commercial customers who privately contract with armored car services to deliver their deposits. Do we identify the armored entity as transactor or the specific armored service driver?

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#1779989 - 01/25/13 06:52 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Banker Chick
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I believe it is the driver you have to identify as the conductor.
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#1779999 - 01/25/13 07:12 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Banker Chick
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The conductor of a reportable transaction cannot be anything other than an individual.
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#1780002 - 01/25/13 07:21 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Banker Chick
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Thanks for your responses.

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#1780119 - 01/25/13 11:24 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Banker Chick
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Some of the larger Armored Car Carriers have actually provided banks with formal letters stating they have instructed all their employees not to provide their information.

I believe this is discussed somewheres on this message board ....
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#1781256 - 01/30/13 06:27 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Banker Chick
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What do you do if the carrier tells the employee not to provide the info? Do you refuse the transaction?

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#1784050 - 02/08/13 12:08 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Juby
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Please call the Helpline with that question. They have a canned response. (It does not involve filing a SAR.) I would tell you what their response is, but getting it from me does not help you; you need a memo in the file saying you spoke with them.

Although this has been an issue since July of 2009, I have never heard any anecdotes from bankers who said their examiners looked at it. They know it's a tar baby. I had one client bank whose independent examiner wanted to make compliance with the armored car ruling an issue. The bank recognized the criticism for what it was, the only thing they could find, and suggested they were not paying the auditor for a game of trivial pursuit. It was redacted from the report.

The armored car ruling remains a joke without a punchline.
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#1787168 - 02/19/13 02:39 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Elwood P. Dowd
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Tentative update on this subject from last Friday's "ABA's Money Laundering and Terrorism Issues Update":

CTR Filings for Armored Car Deliveries
As the March 31 deadline for converting to the new CTR format approaches, many bankers have raised questions about how to report large cash transactions received by armored car. Bankers who have contacted the FinCEN helpline have been getting conflicting information about what to do, although most recently the recommendation has been to contact the armored car company to request an e-mail explaining that drivers will not provide personal information. The instructions for the new form resurrect a problem that has been outstanding for a number of years but had been dormant until the CTR format was revised. This issue has been extensively discussed by law enforcement, banking regulators, armored car companies and FinCEN. A solution proposed by the armored car companies that seemed to satisfy the needs of law enforcement and which was generally endorsed by all concerned was to have banks report the name and contact for the armored car company and not the driver. At the ABA/ABA Money Laundering Enforcement Conference last November, the FinCEN Director of Regulatory Policy announced that guidance would be forthcoming. ABA has been in contact with FinCEN very recently and we hope to see something shortly. If any bankers encounter problems or challenges, please contact Rob Rowe.
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#1787189 - 02/19/13 03:20 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Cape Codder
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Thank you.

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A solution proposed by the armored car companies that seemed to satisfy the needs of law enforcement and which was generally endorsed by all concerned was to have banks report the name and contact for the armored car company and not the driver.


So banks would aggregate based on the name of the company contact? All cash transactions by "Rufus Armor" on the same day would go on the same CTR? They're probably going to want to work on that "solution."

The armored car ruling remains a joke without a punchline.
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#1791573 - 03/05/13 07:35 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Banker Chick
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Has anyone heard about the guidance being released?

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#1791575 - 03/05/13 07:37 PM Re: CTR - Courier Information (Private) Banker Chick
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It was discussed heavily at Top Gun this year. FinCen hopes to issue some revised guidance before the next anniversary of the guidance on July 2nd.
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