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FinCEN Withdraws Proposed Rulemaking for Unregistered Investment Companies

By Doug Cornelius

On September 26, 2002, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a notice of proposed rulemaking, proposing to require unregistered investment companies to establish and implement anti-money laundering programs. (Anti-Money Laundering Programs for Unregistered Investment Companies, 67 FR 60617 (Sep. 26, 2002)) In that notice of proposed rulemaking, FinCEN proposed to define the term ?unregistered investment company? as (1) an issuer that, but for certain exclusions, would be an investment company as that term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, (2) a commodity pool, and (3) a company that invests primarily in real estate and/or interests in real estate. FinCEN proposed requiring these companies to file a notice so that FinCEN could readily identify such companies and require them to establish and implement anti-money laundering programs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Estate Space on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).