Patent ID: 7831498

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of producing a suspicious activity report, comprising: storing, by a computerized financial transaction system, configuration information wherein the configuration information configures the system to produce suspicious activity reports based on certain criteria, and wherein the certain criteria comprises both a mandatory SAR threshold and a SAR prompt threshold; receiving by the computerized financial transaction system, transaction information comprising an amount of a transaction; determining by the computerized financial transaction system, based on the transaction information and the certain criteria, whether a suspicious activity report is to be prepared, wherein determining whether the suspicious activity report is to be prepared comprises: comparing by the computerized financial transaction system, the amount of the transaction to the mandatory SAR threshold; and comparing by the computerized financial transaction system, the amount of the transaction to the SAR prompt threshold and, if triggered by the comparison, displaying a prompt that asks an operator if he wants to prepare a suspicious activity report; and generating by the computerized financial transaction system, a suspicious activity report containing at least some of the transaction information.