BSA
CTRs
OFAC and FinCEN
SARs
Acronyms
100

These are the initials of the current BSA/AML officer.

What is KR?

100

A cash transaction over this amount requires the filing of a CTR.

What is $10,000.00?

100

What the acronym OFAC stands for.

What is Office of Foreign Assets Control?

100

What the acronym SAR stands for.

What is Suspicious Activity Report?

100

AML

What is Anti-Money Laundering?

200

The number of US Treasury Department exceptions allowed to conduct business with individuals named on the OFAC list.

What is zero?

200

The credit union has this many calendar days from the day of the transaction to file a CTR.

What is 15 days? 

200

The non-member dollar amount of on-us checks that requires OFAC verification.

What is $3,000.00?

200

The number of calendar days that the credit union has to file a SAR once suspicious activity has been detected.

What is 30 days?

200

CTR

What is Currency Transaction Report?

300

The timeframe in which credit union staff must receive Bank Secrecy Act training.

What is annually?

300

The person who a completed CTR is submitted to.

Who is the BSA Officer?

300

The timeframe in which FinCEN requires the credit union to search our member database. 

What is every two weeks?

300

Currency transactions intended to evade CTR reporting.

What is structuring?

300

MIP

What is Member Identification Program?

400

The number of years credit unions are required to retain BSA related documents.

What is five?

400

The individual(s) who is/are informed that a CTR is being filed and whom the CTR is completed with.

Who is/are the transacting member(s)?

400

This is the dollar amount that requires an OFAC verification on private party vehicle sellers.

What is all?

400

The credit union group who SAR filings are reported to. 

Who are the board of directors?

400

FinCEN

What is Financial Crimes Enforcement Network?

500

The three steps that occur in money laundering.

What are placement, layering, and integration?

500

The number of designated employees that review the daily aggregate transaction report.

What is two?

500

The name of the section, or list, that allows financial institutions to share information with each other.

What is 314(b)?  

500

This is the rule that protects credit union employees that file SARs.

What is Safe Harbor?

500

US PATRIOT Act

What is Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act?

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