Certain Money Services Businesses ("MSBs") are required to register with FinCEN as well as renew their registrations every two calendar years.¹ We previously issued guidance on February 3, 2006 in an effort to explain the registration and registration renewal process. In our continuing effort to make Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA") compliance more efficient and effective, we offer the MSB Registration Renewal Calculator as a means to determine informally the registration renewal dates of an MSB.

*The MSB Registration Renewal Calculator is intended only as general reference for the public and should not be treated as definitive or determinative of an entity's registration status. The Calculator allows you to enter data to calculate an unofficial projection of an MSB's renewal registration date and is not an official ruling by FinCEN. Entering data in the Calculator has no effect on an MSB's official registration status, and the unofficial projected registration renewal date is not in any way binding on FinCEN. The only determinative evidence of an entity's registration status is the acknowledgement letter from the IRS-Enterprise Computing Center-Detroit (ECC-D) received by an entity after filing its registration. A copy of the ECC-D acknowledgment letter, along with a facsimile of the registration form, should be maintained as a part of an MSB's records for five years. The information entered into and generated by the Calculator is neither stored nor recorded by FinCEN.