Additionally, FinScan ID Validation supports more than 6,000 forms of ID, including passports, visas, driver's licenses, military IDs, social security cards, and other Federal, state and local government IDs. The name and address information from the IDs is imported from the scanners directly into FinScan and displayed on the screen. . Form 108 Schedule E - List of Employees, Agents or Representatives. Instructions for Foreign Corporations. Quarterly Statement of Sales of Games of Chance and Bingo Supplies & Equipment. New Worker's Compensation Form CE-200. Proof of Identification Form and Chart (contains list of acceptable forms of identification).

• Forms Of Identification For Children To Fly
• Forms Of Identification For Casinos
• Forms Of Identification For Notary

I can't put links to casino sites in this answer but I was able to quickly use Google to find all of Harrah's casino ID numbers across the country directly on their websites. If its a smaller, local casino, this information may not be on their website, but sometimes even the small casinos are owed by these larger ones.

This document provides guidance interpreting the requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act ('BSA') regulations¹ as they apply to the casino and card club industries in the United States. FinCEN additionally published frequently asked questions for casinos and card clubs as FIN-2007-G005 on November 14, 2007 and FIN-2009-G004 on September 30, 2009. Casinos and card clubs may continue to rely on the guidance contained in FIN-2007-G005 and FIN-2009-G004, which have not been incorporated into this publication. Section A: 31 C.F.R. § 1010.100 Casino and Card Club DefinitionsQuestion 1: Are two separately licensed, but jointly-owned tribal gaming operations, one of which is a bingo hall and the other offering casino games, both treated as casinos under the BSA regulations?

Answer 1: If a tribal government issues two separate licenses, one for a tribal gaming operation that only offers traditional bingo, and one for a tribal gaming operation that offers casino games, the former is not treated as a casino under BSA regulations, while the latter is treated as a casino under BSA regulations.² Joint ownership is not relevant to the determination. See FIN-2007-G005 (Nov. 14, 2007), Question and Answer 2, concerning the treatment of bingo. Question 2: Is a casino or a card club that cashes checks considered a money services business ('MSB')?

Answer 2: No. A casino or a card club that is duly licensed or authorized to do business as such, and has gross annual gaming revenue in excess of $1 million, is subject to the requirements applicable to casinos or card clubs, even if a casino or card club does its own check cashing. A casino or a card club is not required to comply with rules specific to MSBs.³ Section B: 31 C.F.R. §§ 1021.311(a) - (c) and 1021.313 Currency Transaction Reporting RequirementsQuestion 3: Can a casino comply with currency transaction reporting requirements by using a 'two-strike' system to obtain identifying information for customers purchasing chips in multiple transactions?

Answer 3: FinCEN is aware that some casinos use a so-called 'two-strike' system (or possibly a similarly designed system) to obtain customer identifying information related to reportable currency transactions involving multiple chip purchases during a gaming day. Rather than obtaining information directly from a customer during a transaction, the casino relies upon computer or other pre-existing internal records to identify transactions and obtain the identifying information (e.g., Social Security Number, an address) needed to complete a currency transaction report. If the necessary identifying information is absent or incomplete, the casino will file an incomplete report and enter the name of the customer into a computerized database.

When the same customer returns to the casino on another gaming day and purchases $5,000 or more in chips with currency, the casino will check a computerized database to determine if an incomplete report had previously been filed. The casino will ask the customer for any omitted identifying information. If the customer refuses to provide the information and the customer purchases chips for less than $10,000, the casino will wait until the customer's currency activity exceeds $10,000, at which point it will again request identifying information. If the customer refuses to provide the information, then the customer is banned from further cash buy-ins until the information is produced or until the expiration of six months.

A 'two-strike' system could result in the filing of two incomplete currency transaction reports. The casino has knowledge that the same customer has conducted transactions in amounts aggregating to more than $10,000 during a single gaming day. A casino has 15 gaming days to file a complete report. If a casino has a reasonable opportunity to obtain identifying information from a customer, but instead relies on inaccurate or incomplete information in pre-existing internal records, the casino has not complied with the regulations.Question 4: Is a card club required to create and retain records of all currency transactions related to Kum Kum betting?

Answer 4: The regulations implementing the BSA require card clubs to create and to retain records of all currency transactions by customers, including records in the form of currency transaction logs and multiple currency transaction logs.⁴ This requirement applies to card clubs that offer the practice of Kum Kum betting and banking.⁵ In Kum Kum betting, bets are broken into a ratio or evenly split among individuals in a partnership, and wins or losses are divided among the individuals. An individual placing a Kum Kum bet must exchange currency for chips with a card club dealer or chip runner before a Kum Kum bet is accepted.

The regulations require a card club to file a currency transaction report for each transaction in currency involving cash in or cash out of greater than $10,000.⁶ An individual purchasing chips with currency is conducting a cash-in transaction. Card clubs completing a currency transaction report must identify persons on whose behalf transactions are conducted and must aggregate transactions based on the identities of these persons. An individual placing a Kum Kum bet places the bet on behalf of each individual in the partnership. Card clubs must have risk-based procedures to identify Kum Kum bets and the individuals involved in the bets.

Question 5: Can a casino rely on an ITIN as a means of verifying identity?

Answer 5: No. The Internal Revenue Service ('IRS') issues an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number ('ITIN')⁷ to individuals for use as a tax processing number. The IRS issues ITINs to foreign nationals and others (both resident and nonresident aliens) who have Federal tax reporting or filing requirements and do not qualify for Social Security numbers. The regulations require casinos and card clubs to verify the identities of these individuals by examining a passport, alien identification card, or other unexpired official document evidencing nationality or residence.⁸ Casinos should not rely on ITINs in verifying identity or responding to items in a currency transaction report that elicit information on verification of identity, since ITIN applicants are not required to provide identification documents.

Question 6: What transactions are exempted from currency transaction reporting requirements?

Answer 6: A casino is not required to report currency transactions with:

• Certain domestic banks;⁹ or
• Dealers in foreign exchange or check cashers, so long as the transactions are conducted pursuant to a contractual or other arrangement covering the financial services described in 31 C.F.R. §§ 1021.311(a)(8), (b)(7), and (b)(8).

In addition, a casino is not required to report the following transactions:

• Cash-ins to the extent the same physical currency was wagered previously in a money play on the same table game without leaving the table;¹⁹
• Bills inserted into electronic gaming devices in multiple transactions (unless a casino has knowledge pursuant to 31 C.F.R. § 1021.313);
• Cash outs won in a money play, to the extent it is the same physical currency wagered; or
• Jackpots from slot machines or video lottery terminals.

Question 7: Can a casino subtract cash-out transactions from cash-in transactions when aggregating multiple transactions?

Answer 7: No. Cash-in and cash-out transactions are to be aggregated separately and must not be offset against one another. If there are both cash-in and cash-out transactions that individually exceed $10,000, a casino should enter the amounts separately on the currency transaction report.

Section C: 31 C.F.R. § 1021.320 Suspicious Transaction Reporting Requirements

Question 8: Is a casino required to report suspicious transactions conducted through slot machines or video lottery terminals?

Answer 8: Yes. Transactions conducted through slot machines or video lottery terminals are transactions 'conducted or attempted by, at, or through' a casino for purposes of 31 C.F.R. § 1021.320. Exemptions from the requirement to file currency transaction reports are not exemptions from the requirement to report suspicious transactions.¹¹ A casino is required to establish risk-based internal controls for ensuring compliance with the requirement to report suspicious transactions. Risk-based internal controls¹² may include procedures for the use of automated slot monitoring systems,¹³ including a gaming device bill validator file,¹⁴ and surveillance systems to identify customers conducting suspicious activity through slot machines and video lottery terminals.

Question 9: Is a casino required to use kiosk or slot ticket redemption reports to detect suspicious activity?

Answer 9: A casino is required to establish risk-based internal controls for ensuring compliance with the requirement to report suspicious transactions, including procedures for using all available information, and procedures for the use of automated data processing systems. Many casinos offer multifunctional customer kiosk machines, connected to a gateway or kiosk server, that can perform a variety of financial transactions, such as redeeming slot machine or video lottery tickets for currency, exchanging U.S. currency for U.S. currency (i.e., breaking bills or paper money), redeeming player slot club points, and initiating electronic transfers of funds to or from a wagering account.

While ticket in/ticket out ('TITO') tickets redeemed at kiosks or terminals do not contain a customer's name or any account number, each ticket has the number of the slot machine or video lottery terminal that issued it, as well as an 18-digit validation number and a unique bar code that can be used to identify a customer.¹⁵ Although customers are limited to redeeming tickets usually valued at no more than $3,000, a customer can conduct a series of ticket redemptions in amounts less than $3,000 at the same kiosk, or two kiosks located near each other, during a short period of time (often within several minutes) and thereby avoid limits on the value of tickets redeemed at a kiosk.¹⁶ In addition, customers can feed bills into multiple slot machine validators, make no bets or a single small bet, print out TITO tickets, and cash them at a slot redemption kiosk, without human interaction. Both of the above are casino vulnerabilities. For purposes of suspicious transaction reporting, casinos should note that the reporting requirement also applies to 'patterns of transactions' that are suspicious and aggregate to $5,000. Thus, when a casino develops its risk-based compliance procedures for monitoring for suspicious activities, it must consider and use, as practicable, the transactional information in kiosk-slot ticket redemption detail reports ¹⁷ for the purposes of reporting suspicious activities.

Question 10: What must a casino or card club do when it receives a subpoena for a suspicious activity report?

Answer 10: If a casino or card club is served with a subpoena requiring disclosure of a suspicious activity report or the fact that a suspicious activity report has been filed, except to the extent that the subpoena is submitted by an appropriate law enforcement or supervisory agency, a casino or card club should neither confirm nor deny the existence of the report. A casino or card club should immediately notify FinCEN's Office of Chief Counsel at (703) 905-3590.

Section D: 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410 Casino Recordkeeping Requirements

Question 11: Are wagering accounts subject to the same recordkeeping requirements as front money accounts?

Answer 11: Yes. Customers can deposit funds or winning tickets into race book/sports pool wagering accounts, transfer funds between front money accounts and wagering accounts, and withdraw funds from wagering accounts in the form of casino checks, currency, electronic transmittals of funds, credits to a personal debit card, or as bookkeeping withdrawals to fund bets or wagers on events. Wagering accounts function similarly to front money accounts and are therefore subject to the same recordkeeping requirements.¹⁸

Question 12: When a junket representative opens a front money account at a casino, is a casino required to obtain and verify identifying information for each member of the junket?

Answer 12: A 'junket' is a term of art for a group of players who travel together for the purpose of gambling. A 'junket representative' is the person responsible for organizing the group. Junket members often are known and rated gamblers and expected to participate in a given level of gambling activity. Typically, the junket representative will send an electronic transmittal of funds to a bank maintaining an account for a casino or possibly to a money transmitter located on the premises of a casino, in an amount equal to the total funds that the members of the junket intend to gamble. The funds will be held in a front money account at a casino until the junket arrives.

Recordkeeping requirements at 31 CFR § 1021.410(a) state that 'where [a] deposit [or] account is in the names of two or more persons, the casino shall secure the name, permanent address, and social security number of each person having a financial interest in the deposit [or] account.' The provision requires that casinos verify identity at the time the deposit is made or the account opened. If a casino allows members of a junket to conduct wagers or other transactions through the front money account, then the account 'is in the names of two or more persons,' and each member of the junket has a 'financial interest' in the account.¹⁹

When a person is a nonresident alien, the casino shall record the person's passport number²⁰ or a description of another government document used to verify identity.²¹ Also, when a junket representative sends funds to a casino via an international funds transfer, customer identification requirements apply at any monetary value.²²

Casinos are required to implement risk-based procedures for ensuring compliance with the requirement to report suspicious transactions, including procedures for using 'all available information to determine the occurrence of any transactions required to be reported' as suspicious.²⁴ A casino is required to implement procedures for identifying the junket representative and each member of the junket, obtaining other information on these individuals, and conducting due diligence, for front money accounts.

Question 13: How should a casino treat jackpots from slot machines or video lottery terminals when customers lack identification?

Answer 13: Typically, jackpots from slot machines or video lottery terminals are paid in currency. If a customer does not have valid identification, a casino usually places a payout slip and currency in a safekeeping account at the cage with instructions that the deposit cannot be released to a customer until valid identification is provided. If this occurs, the transaction should be treated as a safekeeping deposit.

Question 14: What is the record retention requirement for original or microfilm records regarding a customer's gaming activity?

Answer 14: Casinos are required to retain the original or a microfilm or other copy or reproduction of all records for five years²⁴ that are prepared or used to monitor a customer's gaming activity. Also, the regulations require casinos to maintain records that are required by other Federal, State, local, or tribal laws or regulations²⁵ which can include currency transaction logs and multiple transaction logs (both computer and manual), currency worksheets, and any other similar record that a casino relies upon to track the currency activity of its customers. Further, a casino or card club may not delete or destroy paper multiple transaction logs (prior to the end of the five-year retention period). A casino or card club may not retain only a computerized worksheet of the information that is keyed in by a cage or the floor employee since the paper logs are original source documents of customer's gambling activities.²⁶

Question 15: Is a casino required to record check numbers for transactions involving personal checks in face amounts of $3,000 or more?

Answer 15: Yes. A casino is required under 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(9) to create and retain a list of transactions involving personal checks²⁷ and other specified instruments, in face amounts of $3,000 or more, regardless of whether currency is involved. The list must contain 'all reference numbers.' A 'personal check number' is cited in 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(9)(ii) as an example of a reference number.

Question 16: Is a casino required to record casino account numbers for transactions involving personal checks in face amounts of $3,000 or more?

Answer 16: Yes. A casino is required to include 'all reference numbers' in its list of transactions. A 'casino account number' is cited in 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(9(ii) as an example of a reference number. Under 31 C.F.R. § 1021.100(b), a 'casino account number' means any and all numbers by which a casino identifies a customer. Front money account numbers, wagering account numbers, credit account numbers, player rating numbers and slot club numbers are all casino account numbers.

Some casinos use one master number that applies to all accounts while others use multiple numbers (i.e., one set of numbers for deposit and credit accounts, and another set of numbers for player rating and slot club accounts). If a casino assigns more than one number to a customer, a casino must record each of the numbers for every transaction. For example, if a personal check is deposited into a front money account, a casino that assigns a customer a separate player rating number must record a check number, a front money account number and a player rating number.

Question 17: Is a casino required to record transactions in which instruments with face values of $3,000 or more are held as collateral for an extension of credit?

Answer 17: Yes. A casino is required under 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(9) to create and retain a list of each transaction between a casino and a customer involving specified instruments in face amounts of $3,000 or more. The requirement applies to a broad set of transactions, including those where a cashier's check or business check is held by a casino as collateral for an extension of credit.²⁸ When a customer buys back the cashier's check or business check, or when a casino uses the cashier's check or business check to satisfy amounts outstanding under the extension of credit, a casino must record the transaction separately.²⁹

Question 18: Is a casino required to record transactions in which instruments with face amounts of $3,000 or more are issued or received through the mail?

Answer 18: Yes. While many transactions between a casino and a customer occur at a cage, casino accounting departments or offices also may receive winning tickets through the mail from customers (e.g., TITO, Keno, Races, and Sports) that a casino pays through negotiable instruments mailed to customers (known as 'mail pays'). In addition, a casino may receive negotiable instruments to pay off outstanding credit lines through the mail from customers. A casino must have procedures in place for ensuring compliance with 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(9).

Many larger casinos share accounting departments with other corporate divisions or related corporations. If an accounting department receives instruments from customers of a casino that are intended for other corporate divisions or related corporations (e.g., banquet payments, convention sales deposits, miscellaneous incoming checks), or for a hotel, gift shop, or restaurant operating on the premises of a casino, and the instruments are not deposited into an account of a casino, then a casino is not required to record them.

Question 19: Is a casino required to record negotiable instruments with face amounts of $3,000 or more that originate from markers?

Answer 19: Yes. If a customer fails to redeem a marker, a casino will complete the marker.³⁰ A casino will create a counter check and include on the counter check the name of the payee and a check number.³¹ The counter check is a negotiable instrument, and a casino will process the counter check through the Federal Reserve System or commercial clearinghouses and correspondent banks. To request a marker or credit extension, a customer initially completes a casino credit application. FinCEN views the completion of the marker as a 'transaction between the casino and its customer involving an official bank check.' If the counter check has a face amount of $3,000 or more, requirements under 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(9) would apply to the transaction.

Section F: Other Casino Issues

Question 20: Can a casino or card club provide customers with information cards that describe the requirements?

Answer 20: The regulations implementing the BSA do not require or prohibit casinos or card clubs from providing information cards to customers. Similarly, the regulations neither require nor prohibit casinos or card clubs from posting information placards at its cages. However, casinos and card clubs should avoid conduct (such as coaching customers on how to avoid the filing of a currency transaction report), which could be viewed as assisting customers in structuring transactions.³²

Question 21: How does a casino or card club get notices about upcoming FinCEN updates on compliance with the regulations?

Answer 21: To ensure that a casino or card club is kept abreast of FinCEN news, rulemakings, advisories, and other developments specific to the gaming industry, a casino or card club can subscribe to electronic notifications from FinCEN. Through FinCEN's free e-mail subscription management service, subscribers can have FinCEN Updates sent immediately, daily, weekly, or monthly to their email accounts or to a wireless device. Casinos and card clubs can subscribe directly at:http://service.govdelivery.com/service/multi_subscribe.html?code=USFINCEN.

Questions or comments regarding the contents of this Guidance should be addressed to the FinCEN Regulatory Helpline at 800-949-2732.

¹ See 31 C.F.R. Parts 1010 - 1028.

²If the bingo hall engages in any of the activities described in 31 C.F.R. § 1010.100(ff), then the bingo hall would qualify as a 'money services business' under that provision and a 'financial institution' under 31 C.F.R. § 1010.100(t).

³See FinCEN Ruling 2005-5 - Definition of Money Services Business (Casinos as Money Services Businesses) issued on July 6, 2005.

⁴ See 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(11). The provision applies only to card clubs. The provision standing alone requires only that a card club retain the records, as opposed to creating the records and obtaining the information necessary to create them. However, a separate provision states that 'if no record is made in the ordinary course of business of any transaction with respect to which records are required to be retained [under BSA regulations], then the record shall be prepared in writing by the financial institution.' See 31 C.F.R. § 1010.430(b).

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⁵Kum Kum betting allows customers to move, add, subtract, or pool/co-mingle their bets with another customer's hand around a table or at different player positions to form one wager that is played against a player/dealer for a specific hand. Generally, the individual with the highest wager (among the seated player, backline bettors, or Kum Kum bettors) is the only one to see the cards dealt. Kum Kum banking is the practice of players (known to each other or who are strangers) and a player/banker pooling or co-mingling their funds to form one bank (a banker's roll then is owned by them all), which is used to bet against the other players at a table game. Only California card clubs offer kum kum betting and kum kum banking.

⁶See 31 C.F.R. § 1021.311.

⁷It is a nine-digit number that begins with the number 9 and has a 7 or 8 in the fourth digit, (e.g., 9XX-7X-XXXX).

⁸See 31 C.F.R. § 1010.312.

⁹See 31 C.F.R. § 1010.315. A casino or card club is a 'non-bank financial institution.' Non-bank financial institutions are not required to report transactions in currency with commercial banks.

¹⁰When a customer increases the amount of currency wagered in the money play, the increase would represent a new 'bet of currency' and a cash-in transaction that is not subject to the exemption.

¹¹FinCEN is aware of vulnerabilities in the operation of slot machines and video lottery terminals. In one prosecution, an individual pled guilty to 2nd degree promotion of prostitution and money laundering for operating an escort service while at the same time playing at a casino's electronic gaming devices, where she inserted $3,361,876 in currency, received cash out machine tickets worth $3,172,120, and then redeemed the tickets, with a total loss of only $189,756 (or approximately 6 percent). See Superior Court of the State Of Washington v. Cheryl Mae Larson, No. 07-1 -00724-6, July 2007. In a second prosecution, an individual stole $1.1 million from an international marketing firm by inflating payments mailed to recipients, and with an accomplice laundered more than $500,000 at casino high limit slot machines with minimal gaming activity during a 10 month period. See Superior Court of the State of New Jersey v. Jamine Alabre and Mathurin Ambroise, No. 07-01-00007-S, January 2007. In a third prosecution, a court found that during a 2 year period: (i) an individual promoting a fraudulent viatical insurance scheme, deposited nearly $11 million in cashier's checks at two casinos, plus used an estimated $14 million in additional investor funds, to play high-stakes slot machines, and (ii) some casinos had built a special $500-token slot machine to accept larger bets from this individual. See United States v. David Laing No. 97-0638 (District Court, Southern District of New York), September 1998. In a related matter the Court Of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, stated that '. . . Laing transferred money to the casinos when he gambled and lost money to them. . . . See FAC [First Amended Complaint] at 20 (alleging $26 million worth of deposits by Laing into defendants' slot machines).' See Fisher v. Las Vegas Hilton Corporation, 47 Fed. Appx. 824 (9th Cir. 2002).

¹²See 31 C.F.R. §§ 1021.210(b)(2)(i), (v)(B), and (vi).

¹³An automated slot monitoring system is a computerized system for slot players whereby plastic cards with magnetic strips and customer names are issued to players who then insert them into a slot machine or video lottery terminal so that a computer can keep track of a player's gambling activity or 'action' (e.g., how much the player bets, for how long), which is used to establish a level of play that may make a player eligible for additional 'comps.'

¹⁴By the term gaming device bill validator file, FinCEN means a file that includes the detail transactions of bills inserted for each slot machine and video lottery terminal. The bill validator has a computer program that produces a report, exportable to a spreadsheet, that includes terminal serial/slot machine number (also known as a manufacturer's serial number), location, customer identification number, bills currency in, amount played/wagered, dollars dropped (i.e., dollars counted), and stacker dollars (i.e., dollars placed in sequential order).

¹⁵FinCEN understands that many casino management systems can link a TITO ticket to a customer via the ticket's 18-digit validation number and unique bar code as long as a customer is using a slot club account card.

¹⁶FinCEN is aware that a casino knows a customer's slot handle for any slot club account holder who uses a slot club card during play, which gives it the ability to detect suspicious transactions. In one case, a court found that two individuals inserted $24,000 in small bills at various slot machines (the proceeds of which were from narcotics transactions), 'cashed out' with $1,000 tickets without playing, and exchanged the tickets for $100 bills at a casino cage. See United States v. Roman A. Dunnigan, No. 09-CR-363-S (District Court, Western District of New York), May 2010. Additionally, suspicious transactions involving TITO tickets and slot ticket redemption reports can be conducted by employees. For example, in one case, a court found that, during a six-month period, several slot technicians were involved in creating over $1.5 million worth of fraudulent tickets in denominations of only $1,000. See State of Nevada vs. Sutherland et al., Eighth Judicial District Court of Clark County No. 07F10879 (August 2007).

¹⁷Kiosk-slot ticket redemption detail report is a detail transaction file report containing all available data from kiosk slot redemptions. Typically, this file contains the following information: number of the slot machine that issued the ticket, ticket issued date and time, ticket number, amount of the ticket, redemption date and time, and name/number/location of the redemption machine.

¹⁸See 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(a), (b)(1) - (3), and (6).

¹⁹A casino would need to identify the junket representative in any event. Recordkeeping requirements at 31 CFR § 1021.410(a) state that 'with respect to each deposit of funds or account opened, the casino shall, at the time the funds are deposited or the account is opened, secure and maintain a record of the name, permanent address, and social security number of the person involved.'

²⁰Since a passport does not contain an individual's permanent address, when a customer provides a passport as a form of identification, a casino or card club would need to review additional identification having a current address (e.g., a foreign driver's license). If none is available, the casino should have policies, procedures, and internal controls to mitigate the risk of not being able to verify a customer's current address.

²¹See 31 C.F.R. §§§ 1010.312, 1021.410(a), and 1021.410(b)(1).

²²See 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(5) and FinCEN's Frequently Asked Questions - Casino Recordkeeping, Reporting and Compliance Program Requirements (FIN-2009-G004, September 30, 2009), Question and Answer 20.

²³See 31 C.F.R. § 1021.210(b)(2)(v)(B).

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²⁴See 31 C.F.R. §§ 1010.430 and 1021.410(b)(8).

²⁵See 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(7).

²⁶See 31 C.F.R. §§ 1010.306 and 1021.410. Also, see FIN-2007-G005, Nov. 14, 2007, Question and Answer 20, pertaining to not deleting or destroying specific computerized customer gaming activity information (prior to the end of the five-year retention period), such as player rating records.

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²⁷Personal checks that 'evidence credit granted by the casino strictly for gaming, such as markers' are excluded.

²⁸However, 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(9) does not apply to situations when a voided personal or business check is used merely to substantiate a depository institution's nine-digit ABA Routing Number or a customer's account number. ²⁹The requirement does not apply to a personal check held as collateral for a marker. However, if a personal check is used to pay a marker, requirements under 31 C.F.R. § 1021.410(b)(9) would apply.

³⁰A casino will encode a Magnetic Ink Character Recognition Line ('MICR') with an American Banking Association routing number and a personal checking account number for a customer.

³¹A customer can redeem a marker with currency, cash equivalents, a personal check, or a funds transfer. If a customer does not redeem the marker, a casino is authorized to complete the credit instrument and debit an account of a customer at a depository institution.

³²See FIN-2009-A003, Structuring by Casino Patrons and Personnel (July 1, 2009).

Dear [ ]:
This letter responds to your letters, dated June 18, 2004 and December 7, 2004, to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). In your letters, you request, on behalf of [Casino] and [Casino] (each a “Casino”), an administrative ruling that interprets 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3), the provision governing whether a casino must aggregate transactions in currency. You raise questions relating to aggregation and the insertion of currency into slot machines through bill validators.
FinCEN has determined that nothing in 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3) requires the Casinos to aggregate transactions in currency at slot machines. In reaching the determination, FinCEN has relied on the representations in your letters, and on the scope of your request for an administrative ruling. FinCEN has assumed that no officer, director, or employee of a Casino obtains – from records of the Casino, observation, or any other means – information, by patron or identification card, on transactions in currency at slot machines.
However, FinCEN is ruling on questions that arise under 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3) only. As discussed in greater detail below, other provisions in the Bank Secrecy Act regulations could require that an officer, director, or employee obtain information, by patron or identification card, on transactions in currency at slot machines.
BACKGROUND:
As described in your letters, patrons of the Casinos may wager currency at slot machines. The patrons insert the currency into slot machines. In addition, patrons may wager tokens, tickets from slot machines, and funds in other forms. Finally, a patron may insert currency into a slot machine, without conducting a wager; the patron receives a ticket from the slot machine, which the patron may wager or redeem.
The insertion of paper currency, or bills, requires the use of a bill validator. Each Casino employs an operating system that “supports every action associated with…slot play at the [Casino].” The operating system records information that employees of the Casinos use in auditing activity at slot machines. The employees compare information on the total amount of bills inserted, through the bill validator, into a slot machine during a period of time, with the “actual cash drop” from the slot machine at the end of the period. The audit requires no information on the amount of bills any individual patron inserts.
A patron may obtain an identification card from a Casino, which the patron may insert into a slot machine. A Casino issues a unique identification card to each patron obtaining an identification card. The Casino verifies the identity of the patron before issuing the identification card, and the Casino intends that no other patron insert the identification card. Nevertheless, the potential exists for other patrons to insert the identification card, and situations do occur where patrons “share” identification cards in this manner.
The operating system rates play at slot machines, and points accrue to an account of a patron. The operating system rates play only to the extent patrons insert identification cards into slot machines. The operating system records information used in rating play at slot machines. The information includes the date or dates on which wagers occur, the number of the identification card, and the amount of funds wagered. The extent to which a patron wagers currency – and not tokens, tickets, or funds in any other form – has no effect on the rating of play at slot machines.
Through a “complex series of queries and data manipulation,” a casino employee could obtain information on the insertion of currency into slot machines, to the extent patrons insert bills. The information would include the date or dates on which the transactions occur, and the amount of currency inserted. The individual could obtain the information by identification card – by number of the identification card, or by name of patron issued the identification card.¹ The individual could obtain the information only to the extent patrons insert identification cards.
ANALYSIS:
Under 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(b)(2), the Casinos must report each transaction in currency² involving either “cash in” or “cash out” of more than $10,000. The provision that governs whether the Casinos must aggregate transactions in currency conditions the requirement to aggregate on knowledge³ states that:

• [M]ultiple currency transactions shall be treated as a single transaction if the casino has knowledge that the transactions are by or on behalf of any person and result in either cash in or cash out totaling more than $10,000 during any gaming day.

Knowledge by a Casino means knowledge by an officer, director, or employee of the Casino. The mere existence of information in the records of a Casino would not represent knowledge of the information by the Casino; rather, an officer, director, or employee of the Casino must have knowledge of the information. The officer, director, or employee could acquire knowledge of the information through any means, including observation and, as stated in 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3), “examination” of the records.
Each Casino employs an operating system that records information used in auditing activity and rating play at slot machines. Through a “complex series of queries and data manipulation,” an officer, director, or employee of a Casino could obtain information on transactions in currency by identification card at slot machines. According to your representations, no officer, director, or employee performs the “complex series of queries and data manipulation.” In addition, you state that no officer, director, or employee obtains, through observation or other means, information on transactions in currency by patron or identification card at slot machines. For these reasons, nothing in 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3) requires the Casinos to aggregate transactions in currency at slot machines.
However, other provisions in the Bank Secrecy Act regulations could require that an officer, director, or employee of a Casino obtain information on transactions in currency by patron or identification card at slot machines. For instance, each Casino must implement an anti-money laundering program “reasonably designed to assure and monitor compliance” with requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act.⁴ A requirement under the Bank Secrecy Act with which each Casino must comply is the requirement to report transactions a Casino “knows, suspects, or has reason to suspect” are suspicious.⁵ Transactions in currency structured to evade the reporting requirements in 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(b)(2) would qualify as suspicious. Transactions in currency that prove unusual in volume or size could also qualify as suspicious. A Casino must perform appropriate due diligence in response to indicia of suspicious transactions. Casinos with “automated data processing systems” must implement programs that “provide for…the use of [the systems] to aid in assuring compliance.”⁶ Finally, a Casino must establish “a system of internal controls to assure ongoing compliance.”⁷
FinCEN is ruling only on questions that arise under 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3). However, knowledge for purposes of 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3) includes knowledge acquired in complying with other requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act – including the requirement to report suspicious transactions, and requirements that relate to Bank Secrecy Act compliance or anti-money laundering programs.
In the event compliance with other requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act results in an officer, director, or employee of a Casino performing “the complex series of queries and data manipulation”⁸ the Casino would, for purposes of 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3), have knowledge that transactions are conducted “by or on behalf of” the same person. The determination holds despite the fact that the officer, director, or employee would obtain information by identification card only, and despite the potential for sharing of identification cards among customers.
Nothing in this administrative ruling precludes action by FinCEN should any of the representations in your letters, or any of the assumptions in this administrative ruling, prove inaccurate. Moreover, nothing in this administrative ruling precludes action by FinCEN on matters – including matters that relate to compliance with provisions in the Bank Secrecy Act regulations other than 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3) – on which FinCEN is not ruling. FinCEN reserves the right to publish this administrative ruling as guidance, with all information identifying you or the Casinos redacted. You will have 14 days after the date of this administrative ruling to identify any other information you believe should be redacted, and the legal basis for the redaction.
If you have any questions concerning this administrative ruling, please contact Leonard C. Senia, Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist, at (202) 354-6412.

Sincerely,
/Signed/
William D. Langford, Jr.,
Associate Director
Regulatory Policy and Programs Division

¹It appears from your letters that the individual could obtain information on wagers of currency only, and not on transactions in which patrons insert currency without conducting wagers; FinCEN notes your discussion of information used in rating play at slot machines. Many casinos employ operating systems that permit individuals to obtain information on the insertion of currency into slot machines, whether or not patrons wager the currency.

²A wager of currency at a slot machine is a “bet of currency,” a transaction which 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(b)(2)(i) lists as an example of a transaction in currency involving “cash in.” See 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(b)(2)(i)(E). You argue that, in the absence of a wager, the insertion of currency into a slot machine is not a transaction in currency. You point to the failure of 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(b)(2)(i) to list the insertion of currency into a slot machine as an example of a transaction in currency involving “cash in.” However, the provision clearly states that the list of examples is not exhaustive. Regardless of whether a patron wagers the currency, the insertion of currency into a slot machine involves the physical transfer of currency to a Casino. See 31 C.F.R. § 103.11(ii)(2). Indeed, in the absence of a wager, the transaction is analogous to the purchase of a token with currency; the patron receives a ticket from the slot machine, which the patron may wager or redeem. The purchase of a chip or token with currency is a transaction in currency involving “cash in.” See 31 C.F.R. § 103.22(b)(2)(i)(A). Likewise, the insertion of currency into a slot machine is a transaction in currency, even in the absence of a wager.

³31 C.F.R. § 103.22(c)(3).

⁴31 C.F.R. §§ 103.120, 103.64(a). A patron who inserts currency into a slot machine would satisfy the definition of “customer” in 31 C.F.R. § 103.64(b)(3), whether or not the patron wagers the currency. The rule that requires the Casinos to report suspicious transactions refers to customers. See 31 C.F.R. § 103.21(a)(2)(iii). In addition, various recordkeeping requirements apply by their terms to transactions involving customers. See 31 C.F.R. § 103.36.

⁵31 C.F.R. § 103.21.

⁶31 C.F.R. §§ 103.120, 103.64(a)(2)(vi).

⁷31 C.F.R. §§ 103.120, 103.64(a)(2)(i).

⁸FinCEN is not ruling on questions that arise under 31 C.F.R. §§ 103.120 and 103.64. Other measures, which the Casinos could implement in response to a risk-based analysis, could include enhancements to the operating system for slot machines. The enhancements could consist of new software tools/interfaces and reprogramming. The Casinos could develop the enhancements, or have a vendor develop the enhancements.