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FinCEN Dings Georgia Check Casher with $45,000 Fine for Poor Reporting

By Kira Zalan

The U.S. Treasury Department's financial intelligence unit fined a Georgia check cashing business $45,000 for failing to report large transactions even after receiving a regulatory warning. In a civil monetary penalty issued Tuesday, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said that Doraville-based Mian, Inc. filed currency transaction reports (CTRs) on only 60 percent of its relevant transactions from December 2010 through November 2011. The CTRs the business did file were late and inaccurate, according to FinCEN. The bureau, which has penalized only two other money services businesses (MSBs) for Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) violations since 2012, said the company allowed...

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