Proposal of Special Measure Against ABLV Bank, AS as a Financial Institution of Primary Money Laundering Concern

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network 31 CFR Part 1010 RIN 1506-AB39 AGENCY: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Treasury. ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. SUMMARY: FinCEN is issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), pursuant to Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act, to prohibit the opening or maintaining of a correspondent account in the United States for, or on behalf of, ABLV Bank, AS. DATES: Written comments on the notice of proposed rulemaking must be submitted on or before April 17, 2018. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by RIN-1506-AB39, by any of the following methods: Federal E-rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov . Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Include Docket Number FinCEN-2017-0013 and RIN-1506-AB39 in the submission. Mail: The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, P.O. Box 39, Vienna, VA 22183. Include RIN-1506-AB39 in the body of the text. Any comments submitted by mail must be postmarked by the due date for comments indicated above. Please submit comments by one method only. Comments submitted in response to this NPRM will become a matter of public record. Therefore, you should submit only information that you wish to make publicly available. Inspection of comments: FinCEN uses the electronic, internet-accessible dockets at Regulations.gov as its complete docket; all hard copies of materials that should be in the docket, including public comments, are electronically scanned a…