US FinCEN 311 and 9714 Special Measures

FinCEN issues special measures under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act and Section 9714 of the Combating Russian Money Laundering Act (Public Law 116-283). A finding designates a foreign jurisdiction, financial institution or class of transactions as being of primary money laundering concern; a notice of proposed rulemaking proposes one or more special measures; a final rule or order imposes them, most often a prohibition on US financial institutions maintaining correspondent accounts for, or transmitting funds involving, the target.

The targets in FinCEN's overview table are sanction while a final rule or order is in force and reg.warn while only a finding or proposed rule exists. Rescinded measures are kept with the end date of their sanction record and no risk topic.

The dataset also includes the addresses, aliases and identifiers stated in the linked rulemaking documents, the individually named members of class-based measures and affiliates the rules define as part of a target (which share the target's status), and the subsidiaries, owners and other parties the documents name in connection with a target. Those parties are not designated by FinCEN; they are tagged as persons of interest (poi) for as long as the measure is live, with FinCEN's own wording quoted in their notes.