Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering: Joint Fact Sheet on Charities and Nonprofit Organizations

Summary

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and the National Credit Union Administration (collectively, the agencies) today issued a joint fact sheet recognizing the important role of charities and other nonprofit organizations during the coronavirus pandemic. The joint fact sheet clarifies how banks¹ may provide services to charities and other nonprofit organizations consistent with FinCEN's risk-based approach for conducting customer due diligence.

Highlights

The joint fact sheet

• explains that the level and type of customer due diligence should be appropriate for the risks presented by each customer, including charities and other nonprofit organizations.
• notes that FinCEN's 2016 Customer Due Diligence rule does not create a regulatory requirement, and there is no supervisory expectation, for banks to have unique, additional due diligence steps for charities or other nonprofit organization customers.
• provides considerations that may be useful to banks when determining the customer risk profile of a charity or other nonprofit organization.

Further Information

Please contact Jim Vivenzio, Acting Director for BSA/AML Policy, at (202) 649-5470.

Grovetta N. Gardineer
Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy

Related Link

• "Joint Fact Sheet on Bank Secrecy Act Due Diligence Requirements for Charities and Non-Profit Organizations" (PDF)