IRS Lends a Hand to FinCEN

The IRS is rescuing a fellow Treasury Department bureau after a major data-sharing project fell prey to management problems. The tax agency has opened its modernized Currency and Banking Retrieval System—where it stores Bank Secrecy Act data—to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. FinCEN will use the system’s data query and analysis functions, rather than continue work on its floundering BSA Direct Retrieval and Sharing system.

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