Department of the Treasury

Financial Crimes Enforcement 

Network

Congressional Budget 

Justification and Annual 

Performance Report and Plan

FY 2019
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Table of Contents

Section I – Budget Request.......................................................................................................... 3

A – Mission Statement...............................................................................................................3

B – Summary of the Request .....................................................................................................3

1.1 Appropriations Detail Table............................................................................................4

1.2 – Budget Adjustments Table................................................................................................4

C – Budget Increases and Decreases Description......................................................................4

1.3 – Operating Levels Table.....................................................................................................7

D – Appropriations Language and Explanation of Changes .....................................................8

E – Legislative Proposals...........................................................................................................8

Section II – Annual Performance Plan and Report.................................................................. 9

A – Strategic Alignment ............................................................................................................9

B – Budget and Performance by Budget Activity ...................................................................10

2.1.1 BSA Administration and Analysis Resources and Measures.........................................10

BSA Administration and Analysis Budget and Performance ..................................................11

C – Changes in Performance Measures...................................................................................12

Section III – Additional Information ....................................................................................... 13

A – Summary of Capital Investments......................................................................................13
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Section I – Budget Request

A – Mission Statement

Safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat money laundering and promote 

national security through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial intelligence and 

strategic use of financial authorities.

B – Summary of the Request 

The FY 2019 President’s Budget requests additional resources of $3,578,000 to maintain 

current levels, enhance FinCEN’s national security capacity and to begin the development of a 

non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) risk assessment profile by targeting compliance toward 

the highest risk.

FinCEN is a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Director of FinCEN reports to 

the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI). FinCEN supports the 

Treasury Strategic Goal 3: Enhance National Security and Goal 5: Achieve Operational 

Excellence. In Strategic Goal 3, FinCEN supports the following Treasury Strategic Objectives: 

3.1 Strategic Threat Disruption – Identify, disrupt, and dismantle priority threats to the U.S. and 

international financial system and Treasury Strategic Objective 3.2 Anti-Money 

Laundering/Combating Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Framework – Identify and reduce 

vulnerabilities in the U.S. and international financial system to prevent abuse by illicit actors.

In carrying out its mission, FinCEN has numerous statutory areas of responsibility:

 Developing and issuing regulations under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA); 

 Enforcing compliance with the BSA in partnership with law enforcement and other 

regulatory partners; 

 Serving as the U.S. Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and maintaining a network of 

information sharing with FIUs in 156 partner countries; 

 Receiving millions of new financial reports each year; 

 Securing and maintaining a database of over 190 million reports; 

 Analyzing and disseminating financial intelligence to federal, state, and local law 

enforcement, federal and state regulators, foreign FIUs, and industry; 

 Bringing together the disparate interests of law enforcement, FIUs, regulatory partners, 

and industry.
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1.1 Appropriations Detail Table

Dollars in Thousands

Financial Crimes 

Enforcement Network FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2018 to FY 2019

Appropriated Resources Enacted 1/

Annualized 

CR 2/ Request Change % Change

New Appropriated 

Resources FTE AMOUNT FTE AMOUNT FTE AMOUNT FTE AMOUNT FTE AMOUNT

BSA Administration 

and Analysis 274 $115,003 304 $114,222 332 $117,800 28 $3,578 9.21% 3.13%

Subtotal New 

Appropriated Resources 274 $115,003 304 $114,222 332 $117,800 28 $3,578 9.21% 3.13%

Other Resources

 Reimbursables 1 $3,000 1 $3,000 1 $3,000 0 $0 0.00% 0.00%

 Recovery from Prior 

Years 0 $500 0 $500 0 $500 0 $0 NA 0.00%

Subtotal Other 

Resources 1 $3,500 1 $3,500 1 $3,500 0 $0 0.00% 0.00%

Total Budgetary 

Resources 275 $118,503 305 $117,722 333 $121,300 28 $3,578 9.18% 3.04%

1/ FY 2017 shows actual FTE usage. This column reflects levels appropriated in H.R. 255, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 

2017. For further details on the execution of these resources, see the 2019 Budget Appendix chapter for the Department of the 

Treasury. 

2/ FY 2018 shows anticipated FTE usage with funded FTE at 332.

1.2 – Budget Adjustments Table

Dollars in Thousands

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) FTE Amount

FY 2018 Annualized CR 304 $114,222 

Changes to Base:

Maintaining Current Levels (MCLs): 0 $1,421 

Pay Annualization 0 $260 

Non-Pay 0 $1,161 

Subtotal Changes to Base 0 $1,421 

Total FY 2019 Base 304 $115,643 

Program Changes:

Annualization of FY 2018 Hiring 28 $0 

Program Decrease 0 ($1,161)

Programmatic Contract and Equipment Reductions 0 ($1,161)

Program Increases: 0 $3,318 

Enhance National Security Capacity 0 $2,118 

Develop NBFI Risk Assessment Scoring Model 0 $1,200 

Total FY 2019 Request 332 $117,800 

C – Budget Increases and Decreases Description

Maintaining Current Levels (MCLs)........................................................+$1,421,000 / +0 FTE

Pay Annualization +$260,000 / +0 FTE 

Funds are requested for annualization of the January 2018 pay-raise.

Non-Pay +$1,161,000 / +0 FTE 

Funds are requested for non-labor expenses such as travel, rent, contracts, supplies, and 

equipment.
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Program Changes....................................................................................................+$0 / +28 FTE

Annualization of FY 2018 Hiring +$0 / +28 FTE

This adjustment is required to reflect the positive results of FinCEN’s hiring surge through 

September 2019, which is expected to right size the workforce to the funded FTE level.

Program Decreases ......................................................................................-$1,161,000 / -0 FTE

Programmatic Contract and Equipment Reductions -$1,161,000 / -0 FTE

This reduction will be taken through evaluation of increases or changes in proposed acquisitions 

of contractual services and equipment. FinCEN will evaluate contracts during the renewal 

process to absorb this reduction.

Program Increases .....................................................................................+$3,318,000 / +0 FTE

Enhance National Security Capacity +$2,118,000 / +0 FTE

These funds are necessary to sustain FinCEN’s increased contractor resources needed to

adequately support Treasury’s Terrorism and Financial Intelligence priorities. FinCEN is 

increasingly called upon to identify sources of revenue for illicit actors and their attempts to 

access and exploit the international financial system. These requests stem from the growing 

threats from rogue nations including the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK)

and continued efforts to combat international organized crime, terrorism, narcotics, and 

cybercrime. These additional funds will support these activities, as well as the growing analysis 

of and demand for FinCEN’s BSA data to assist in combating the emerging threats to the 

financial system. Two areas of FinCEN, in particular, will benefit most from this financial 

support are outlined below. 

In the area of enforcement, additional funding will help FinCEN keep pace with its increasing 

national security workload through the use of its unique regulatory authorities. This includes 

the use of special measures provided under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act to target 

foreign jurisdictions, foreign financial institutions, or international financial transactions of 

primary money laundering concern that pose national security threats to the global financial 

system. Additionally, the use of targeted financial measures such as Geographic Targeting 

Orders has increased, consistent with FinCEN’s ongoing efforts to enhance the collection of 

financial intelligence on terrorist groups and other national security threats. Finally, FinCEN 

will continue to exercise its Foreign Financial Agency regulatory authority to obtain special 

collections of financial intelligence from U.S. financial institutions such as international 

transactions related to specific individuals, entities, or jurisdictions. This effort adds significant 

value to the collective government efforts to counter terrorist financing activities. 

In the area of intelligence, FinCEN continues to support Treasury’s broader national security 

efforts by identifying funding streams for illicit actors, including terrorists and terrorist 

financiers. This includes processing alerts on BSA filings and developing reports for 

dissemination to FinCEN customers in law enforcement, the intelligence community, and 

foreign FIUs. In many cases, FinCEN is the only link between the intelligence community and 

financial intelligence maintained pursuant to the reporting obligations under the BSA. As part 

of that effort, FinCEN is increasingly called upon to identify financial flows and money 

laundering activities tied to terrorism financing, transnational organized crime, trade-based 

money laundering networks, proliferation concerns of priority threat areas, and more recently 

the illicit narcotics proceeds that fuel the opioid crisis. 
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Also in the area of intelligence, the ongoing need to adapt to the evolving and increasingly 

complex nature of financial crimes, which often involves a cyber or other highly technical 

element is critical. From spear phishing to ransomware, the majority of cybercrimes involve a 

financial nexus that often goes unexplored in other law enforcement investigations. The BSA 

provides the most comprehensive reporting structure for suspicious financial activity covering

one of the most targeted critical infrastructure industries—financial services. FinCEN uses the 

unique abilities of its cyber team to bridge financial and cyber investigations, finding previously 

undiscovered information and connecting cases that often appear unrelated. These funds will 

assist in moving the cyber program forward enabling it to field further accomplishments. 

Develop NBFI Risk Assessment Model +$1,200,000 / +0 FTE

This funding will allow FinCEN to begin the development of a Non-Bank Financial Institution 

(NBFI) Risk Assessment Model that will ultimately improve FinCEN’s ability to identify, 

detect, and examine the highest risk NBFIs and foster enhanced BSA compliance within the 

NBFI sectors. NBFIs have the potential to create significant vulnerabilities for the financial 

system that can be exploited by money launders, terrorist financiers, and other criminal actors. 

These sectors encompass approximately 320,000 financial institutions and over $13 trillion in 

financial services. The NBFI sector includes money service businesses (MSBs), including 

virtual currency exchanges and administrators; casinos and card clubs, dealers in precious 

metals, stones, or jewels; certain insurance companies; and non-bank mortgage lenders and 

originators. NBFIs present inherent risks to the U.S. and global financial system ranging from 

the lack of traditional depository institution relationships for MSBs; the abuse of casinos and 

card clubs by criminal organizations; the relative isolation of precious metals, stones, and jewels

from the financial services sector; and the rapidly changing technologies and customer 

identification challenges of virtual currency exchanges and administrators.

These inherent risks are amplified by challenges to mitigate these risks through supervision and 

examination. While FinCEN and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as its delegated 

examination authority, have striven to provide a robust oversight regime, the sheer numbers, 

volumes, and lack of regulatory requirements aside from those mandated under the BSA, have 

made even identifying the complete NBFI population challenging. This initiative will begin a 

process to identify the NBFI population and develop associated risk profiles that will be 

assigned to these NBFI entities, as well as assigning risk assessments across the entire 

population. To compensate for the examination challenges of this unique population, this 

initiative will construct an automated, data-driven risk examination selection and assignment 

system to identify high risk NBFI’s and prioritize examination to better utilize the limited 

examination force.

This effort is the first step to ensure that these sectors are effectively supervised; and, it is a key 

Treasury Department priority not only to mitigate these vulnerabilities but also to protect the 

financial system from criminal abuse. This initiative will also help NBFIs continue to play their 

important role in financial inclusion and the economy, and to improve the government’s 

oversight and supervision of this industry that is a leading risk factor that banks cite when 

making decisions to sever NBFI business relationships on a wholesale basis.
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1.3 – Operating Levels Table

Dollars in Thousands

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019

Object Classification Enacted 1/ Annualized CR Request

11.1 - Full-time permanent 41,817 41,817 42,076 

11.3 - Other than full-time permanent 408 408 408 

11.5 - Other personnel compensation 205 205 205 

11.9 - Personnel Compensation (Total) 42,430 42,430 42,689 

12.0 - Personnel benefits 12,260 12,260 12,261 

Total Personnel and Compensation Benefits $54,690 $54,690 $54,950 

21.0 - Travel and transportation of persons 615 630 649 

23.1 - Rental payments to GSA 4,130 4,151 4,234 

23.2 - Rental payments to others 32 40 42 

23.3 - Communications, utilities, and miscellaneous charges 1,670 1,670 1,726 

24.0 - Printing and reproduction 207 153 153 

25.1 - Advisory and assistance services 1,097 1,097 1,097 

25.2 - Other services from non-Federal sources 17,112 16,345 19,503 

25.3 - Other goods and services from Federal sources 9,496 9,496 9,496 

25.6 - Medical care 174 174 174 

25.7 - Operation and maintenance of equipment 17,979 17,979 17,979 

26.0 - Supplies and materials 326 322 322 

31.0 - Equipment 7,475 7,475 7,475 

Total Non-Personnel $60,313 $59,532 $62,850 

New Budgetary Resources $115,003 $114,222 $117,800 

FTE 274 304 332

Note: This table includes total annually appropriated funding (enacted for FY 2017, FY 2018 Annualized CR and FY 2019 request) 

and FTEs are Actual for FY 2017.

1/ This column reflects levels appropriated in H.R. 255, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017. For further details on the 

execution of these resources see the 2019 Budget Appendix chapter for the Department of the Treasury.
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D – Appropriations Language and Explanation of Changes

Appropriations Language Explanation of Changes

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK

Federal Funds

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes Enforcement 

Network, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and 

training expenses of non-Federal and foreign government 

personnel to attend meetings and training concerned with 

domestic and foreign financial intelligence activities, law 

enforcement, and financial regulation; services authorized by 5 

U.S.C. 3109; not to exceed $12,000 for official reception and 

representation expenses; and for assistance to Federal law 

enforcement agencies, with or without reimbursement, 

$117,800,000, of which not to exceed $34,335,000 shall remain 

available until September 30, 2021.

Note.—A full-year 2018 appropriation for this account was not 

enacted at the time the budget was prepared; therefore, the budget 

assumes this account is operating under the Continuing

Appropriations Act, 2018 (Division D of P.L. 115–56, as 

amended). The amounts included for 2018 reflect the annualized 

level provided by the continuing resolution.

E – Legislative Proposals

FinCEN has no legislative proposals.
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Section II – Annual Performance Plan and Report

A – Strategic Alignment

FinCEN supports the Treasury Strategic Goal 3: Enhance National Security and Goal 5: 

Achieve Operational Excellence. In Strategic Goal 3, FinCEN supports Treasury Strategic 

Objectives: 3.1 Strategic Threat Disruption – Identify, disrupt, and dismantle priority threats to 

the U.S. and international financial system and Treasury Strategic Objective 3.2 Anti-Money 

Laundering/Combating Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Framework – Identify and reduce 

vulnerabilities in the U.S. and international financial system to prevent abuse by illicit actors.

FinCEN receives BSA reports and maintains a database; analyzes and disseminates financial 

intelligence to federal, state, and local law enforcement, federal and state regulators, foreign 

FIUs, and industry; and serves as the U.S. FIU and maintains an information sharing network 

with FIU partner countries; develops and issues regulations under the BSA; and enforces 

compliance with the BSA in partnership with regulatory partners.

In FY 2017, FinCEN had several noteworthy accomplishments highlighted below: 

 assessed six penalties against financial institutions in multiple industry groups including one 

virtual currency exchanger and an executive of the company; 

 reported terrorism-related financial intelligence to law enforcement and foreign partners;

produced financial analysis on organized crime groups in the U.S. related to narcotics and 

third party money laundering networks, trade based money laundering schemes;

 issued intelligence assessments on the exploitation of emerging payment systems as well as

issued 311 actions to further restrict North Korea’s access to the U.S financial system and 

against a foreign financial institution of primary money laundering concern, Bank of 

Dandong, in support of sanctions activities;

 issued advisories to the financial community on anti-money laundering risks associated with 

all-cash residential real estate transactions; cyber threats from business e-mail compromise 

fraud schemes; and individuals and entities in South Sudan, Venezuela, and North Korea 

who use the financial systems to further other illegal activities; and 

 continued its Global Rapid Response Program, recovering or restraining over $300 million 

obtained through Business Email Compromise and other cyber-enabled crimes targeting 

financial institutions and their clients. 

FinCEN’s FY 2018 and FY 2019 priorities include:

 disrupt the capability of priority targets, such as North Korea, to raise, use, and move funds 

through strategic application of Treasury’s tools and authorities; 

 identify threats to the financial system from terrorists, proliferators, rogue regimes, and 

criminal actors through exploitation and analysis of BSA data, other financial information, 

and all-source intelligence research and analysis;

 expand current and facilitate new threat information sharing and collaboration with 

domestic and international partners to address risks to the U.S. and global financial system; 

 proactively identify vulnerabilities within financial system and address them through a riskbased approach that integrates oversight measures, regulations, targeted enforcement 

actions, and compliance; and
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 modernize, streamline, and simplify the regulatory framework to more effectively and 

efficiently address national security priorities.

B – Budget and Performance by Budget Activity

2.1.1 BSA Administration and Analysis Resources and Measures

Dollars in Thousands

Resource Level FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019

Enacted Enacted Enacted Enacted Enacted Annualized 

CR Request

Appropriated Resources $104,993 $112,000 $112,000 $112,979 $115,003 $114,222 $117,800 

Reimbursables Resources $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 

Budget Activity Total $107,993 $115,000 $115,000 $115,979 $118,003 $117,222 $120,800 

FTE (Actual) 302 279 276 279 275 305 333

Note: FY 2013-2017 FTE are actual FTE levels. FY 2018 shows anticipated FTE usage. 

Measure FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 

2019

Actual Actual Actual Actual Actual Target Target Target

Percentage of Customers 

Finding that FinCEN's Analytic 

Products and Advanced 

Research Positively Affected 

Investigations, Operations, or 

Understanding of Threats to 

the Financial System

N/A N/A N/A 95 92 95 90 90

Percentage of Stakeholders 

Finding FinCEN’s Information 

Sharing Has Contributed to 

Their Organization’s 

Responsibilities

N/A N/A 89 91 90 92 90 90

Percentage of Users Finding 

That the Financial Intelligence 

Collected by FinCEN Pursuant 

its Regulations Provides 

Valuable Information to 

Safeguard the Financial 

System, Combat Money 

Laundering, and Counter 

Terrorist Financing

90 80 81 83 86 85 86 86

Percentage of Users Satisfied 

with FinCEN Information 

Sharing Systems

N/A N/A 78 80 87 84 84 84

Percent of financial regulators 

who find FinCEN’s 

enforcement and compliance 

efforts effective

N/A N/A N/A N/A 0.91 B 0.9 0.9

Percentage of AML/CFT 

Supervisors Who Indicate That 

FinCEN’s Enforcement Actions 

Have Resulted in Increased 

Compliance by Covered 

Financial Institutions

N/A N/A 81 94 82 94 Disc Disc

Key: DISC - Discontinued; B - Baseline
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BSA Administration and Analysis Budget and Performance

($117,800,000 from direct appropriations, $3,000,000 from reimbursable resources):

Description of Performance:

FinCEN tracks the percentage of customers finding that FinCEN's analytic products and 

advanced research positively affected their investigations, operations, or understanding of 

threats to the financial system. This measure supports the Treasury Strategic Objective 3.1: 

Strategic Threat Disruption – identify, disrupt, and dismantle priority threats to the U.S. and 

international financial system. In FY 2017, 92 percent of respondents found that the analytic 

products and research had an impact on the investigations, missing the FY 2017 target of 95 

percent. To meet future targets, FinCEN will concentrate on expanding product dissemination, 

increasing outreach to customers of its intelligence products, and improving processes to obtain 

feedback about product usefulness. The FY 2018 and FY 2019 targets are set at 90 percent.

FinCEN measures the percentage of stakeholders finding that FinCEN’s information sharing 

has contributed to their organization’s responsibilities. This measure supports the Treasury 

Strategic Objective 3.1: Strategic Threat Disruption – identify, disrupt, and dismantle priority 

threats to the U.S. and international financial system. In FY 2017, FinCEN missed its target 

[satisfaction rate] of 92 percent with 90 percent of respondents finding the information sharing 

helpful. FinCEN will further seek to refine and optimize its financial intelligence information 

sharing efforts among both its domestic and foreign partners in government and private industry 

to attain future targets, including its mechanisms for soliciting feedback. The FY 2018 and 

FY 2019 targets are set at 90 percent.

FinCEN evaluates the percentage of users finding that financial intelligence collected by 

FinCEN pursuant to its regulations provides valuable information to safeguard the financial 

system, combat money laundering, and counter terrorist financing. This measure supports 

Treasury Strategic Objective 3.2: AML/CFT Framework — identify and reduce vulnerabilities 

in the U.S. and international financial system to prevent abuse by illicit actors. In FY 2017, 86 

percent of users found the financial intelligence collected valuable, thereby surpassing the 

FY 2017 target of 85 percent. FinCEN will continue to emphasize improvements in data quality 

and filing information, as well as continued training efforts to improve understanding and 

utilization of the FinCEN Query tool for the bureau’s unique cases and situations. In FY 2018 

and FY 2019, the target is set at 86 percent.

FinCEN monitors the percentage of users satisfied with FinCEN information sharing systems. 

This measure supports the Treasury Strategic Objective 3.2: AML/CFT Framework — identify 

and reduce vulnerabilities in the U.S. and international financial system to prevent abuse by 

illicit actors. In FY 2017, FinCEN exceeded its target of 84 percent with 87 percent of the users 

satisfied with information sharing systems. FinCEN attributes this performance to the 

usefulness of the data it provides; users’ increased familiarity with systems which are in a 

steady operational state; its knowledgeable and courteous user support who continue to improve 

same day, help line closure rates; and its high system availability rate. FinCEN will continue to 

work with its customers to identify and prioritize enhancement requests as part of its Data 

Management activities; monitor the help line request volume and closure rates to address any 

issues or request surges; and continue to support infrastructure activities that improve overall 

system performance and availability. As part of the recent forms renewal process, FinCEN is 
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making minor form changes as well as implementing XML standards. These changes may 

initially cause challenges that could impact performance measures during transition, in FY 2018 

and FY 2019 the targets for FinCEN systems remain at 84 percent. 

FinCEN determines the percentage of AML/CFT supervisors who indicate that FinCEN’s 

enforcement actions have resulted in increased compliance by covered financial institutions. 

This measure supports Treasury Strategic Objective 3.2: AML/CFT Framework — identify and 

reduce vulnerabilities in the U.S. and international financial system to prevent abuse by illicit 

actors. In FY 2016, 94 percent of customers indicated that enforcement actions have resulted in 

increased compliance by the financial institutions they examine. FinCEN based its FY 2017 

target (also 94 percent) on the FY 2016 results, a significant spike from the FY 2014 and 

FY 2015 results of 81 and 88 percent, respectively. The FY 2017 results of 82 percent fell short 

of this target and this target was based on the FY 2016 performance result of one survey 

question. FinCEN attributes this spike to, among other things, its customers’ enthusiastic 

reaction to FinCEN’s increased involvement in the enforcement arena starting in approximately 

2013, particularly in the area of casinos and virtual currency. Starting in FY 2018, FinCEN will 

discontinue this performance measure and replace it with a more comprehensive compliance 

and enforcement measure that tracks five questions instead of one. The new measure captures 

more of the effects of FinCEN’s compliance and enforcement measures by including more 

questions. In addition, the new measure represents more regulators that may have not answered 

the single enforcement action question. The new measure is the percent of financial regulators 

who find FinCEN’s enforcement and compliance efforts effective. In FY 2017 the baseline 

performance of the new measure was 91 percent finding enforcement and compliance efforts 

effective. The FY 2018 and FY 2019 targets will be set at 90 percent.

C – Changes in Performance Measures 

With the publication of the Department of the Treasury’s Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2018 -

2022, FinCEN will work this year to baseline its performance against the new strategic 

objectives. This could result in additional changes to performance measures in the FY 2020 

budget.
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Performance Measure or 

Indicator

Change and Justification

1. Percentage of AML/CFT 

supervisors who indicate that 

FinCEN’s enforcement actions 

have resulted in increased 

compliance by covered financial 

institutions (discontinue)

FinCEN will discontinue this metric and replace it with 

a more comprehensive compliance and enforcement 

measure that tracks five questions instead of one. The 

new measure captures more of the effects of FinCEN’s 

compliance and enforcement measures by including 

more questions. The discontinued measure will be 

replaced by the Percent of financial regulators who find 

FinCEN’s enforcement and compliance efforts 

effective.

2. Percent of financial regulators 

who find FinCEN’s enforcement 

and compliance efforts effective

(new measure)

The new measure captures more of the effects of 

FinCEN’s compliance and enforcement measures by 

including more questions. The new measure will still 

include the impact of the prior enforcement action 

question while also incorporating questions that gauge 

improved cooperation on actions taken against financial 

institutions, consistency in the application of the BSA, 

and compliance observed.

Section III – Additional Information

A – Summary of Capital Investments

As the administrator of the BSA, FinCEN receives valuable information reported and collected 

under BSA requirements, which totaled approximately $19.3 million filings in FY 2017. To 

successfully fulfill its mission, FinCEN relies on secure, advanced information technology (IT)

to manage the collection, processing, storage, and dissemination of BSA information that 

contributes to the soundness and confidence in America’s financial system.

FinCEN’s IT strategy takes into account the growing need for financial institutions to meet 

obligations as efficiently as possible, while ensuring that FinCEN and law enforcement agencies 

receive accurate, timely, and reliable BSA information to track money trails, identify money 

laundering, and unravel terrorist financing networks. FinCEN’s IT strategy focuses on the 

critical need to improve the quality and accessibility of its data and increase responsiveness to 

stakeholders by maintaining and building upon flexible and innovative technical solutions. The 

entire life cycle cost of the BSA IT Modernization investment, which includes the year the 

investment started (2010) through BY+4 (2023), is $376.98 million (including FTE) and the 

FY 2019 cost is $26.76 million (including FTE).

A summary of capital investment resources, including major IT and non-technology 

investments, can be viewed/downloaded at: http://www.treasury.gov/about/budgetperformance/pages/summary-of-capital-investments.aspx. 

This website also contains a digital copy of this document.