FinCEN’s Gateway Program offers two databases that access multiple BSA forms   State Banking’s primary access has been through the CBQS database which accesses SARs only.  Many state regulators have expressed a need to access other BSA forms via the CBRS database.  Such requests for expanded access have been accepted by our Legal Department.  You may wish to read the below list of forms. 

To request access, a letter to Associate Director Jack Cunniff must be sent by mail or email (as an attached pdf).  This will initiate a process which entails formulating a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) prior to submitting forms called 5081 forms that will identify the users of the system [to be submitted further in the process].  We can then discuss training preferences as far as sending users to train here in our training facility or having a Gateway instructor utilize your training facility.  In order to be ready to handle your needs, please provide an estimate of the number of users you may have (if you have not already done so). 

Below, please find information to guide you through the request for Gateway access.  The letter should include:  

(1) Information about the agency's jurisdiction that would entitle it to receive access, and
(2) How access to the reports would be useful to the mission of the agency.

Here are all 11 BSA reports on the CBRS database:

  1. Bank SAR

  2. Bank CTR

  3. Designation of Exempt Person

  4. MSB - registration form (money transmitters, check cashers, currency dealers, money order/travelers check    issuers/sellers/redeemers, etc)

  5. MSB - SAR

  6. Securities and Futures Industry - SAR

  7. Casino CTR

  8. Casino SAR

  9. Form 8300 - more than $10,000 in currency received by a trade or business (example: car dealers, real estate, lawyers)

  10. FBAR - individuals and companies declaring ownership of foreign bank accounts

  11. CMIR - declarations by individuals and companies transporting more than $10,000 in currency or bearer instruments into or out of the United States; reported to Homeland Security (formerly U.S. Customs)

The request letter may be sent to:

Jack Cunniff
Associate Director
Client Liaison & Services
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
P. O. Box 39
Vienna, VA 22183

Or electronically with letterhead to him at:

Jack.Cunniff@fincen.gov

Request Access Form-5081