Require FinCEN to publish annual anti-money-laundering data

What has happened

1. Jun 25, 2026 Attempted

   The survey cleared the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. FinCEN's 30-day submission notice of 2026-04-28 sets out what it is — a **new** collection, OMB control number then "1506-NEW", 7,457 estimated responses at 8 hours each for 59,656 burden hours, whose results "will help assess the cumulative impact of AML/CFT regulations and may inform efforts to adjust regulatory obligations and advance deregulatory proposals consistent with the Executive Orders of the Trump Administration" — and discloses that it is a pilot: "FinCEN will pilot the survey by distributing it exclusively to MSBs through MSB trade associations, rather than attempting to reach all NBFIs in the first instance." OIRA approved it without change on 2026-06-25 as control number 1506-0087, expiring 2029-06-30. Still `attempted`, and for three reasons: nothing has been collected or published, the pilot reaches money services businesses rather than the private sector at large, and no annual publication duty exists — a Paperwork Reduction Act clearance authorizes a collection, it does not require a report. **The other two datasets the Quote names went the wrong way in the same period.** FinCEN's published filing-trends series covers suspicious activity reports only and stops at calendar year 2024: `fincen.gov/resources/reports/sar-stats/sar-filings-industry` is headed "SAR Filings by Industry — For the period January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2024", its eight spreadsheets were last modified on 2025-08-22, and no calendar-2025 update had appeared thirteen months later. And there is **no currency-transaction-report filing statistics publication at all**: all 2,876 URLs in FinCEN's sitemap were grepped for `sar-stats|filing-trend|statistic|ctr`, and every CTR hit is a FAQ, an administrative ruling, a Federal Register notice or a form page.

   • FinCEN notice: Submission for OMB Review; Proposed New Information Collection — Survey of the Costs of AML/CFT Compliance (91 FR 22915)

     Primary Executive branch Apr 28, 2026

   • OIRA information collection request 202604-1506-002 (OMB control number 1506-0087), Survey of the Costs of AML/CFT Compliance — Approved without change, conclusion date 06/25/2026

     Primary Executive branch Jun 25, 2026

   • FinCEN: SAR Filings by Industry — "For the period January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2024" (as observed 2026-09-06; the page carries no date of its own, so it is dated at the observation and is approximate)

     Primary Executive branch Sep 6, 2026

2. Sep 30, 2025 Attempted

   FinCEN began building the one dataset the Quote names that it does not already publish. On September 30, 2025 it proposed a new information collection, a Survey of the Costs of Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Compliance, seeking "information on the direct compliance costs incurred by non-bank financial institutions … with AML/CFT compliance requirements and, to the extent these expenses overlap with those of other activities (such as fraud monitoring), the amount attributable to AML/CFT compliance". What Congress has not done is require any of it to be published annually, which is the ask.

   • FinCEN notice: Proposed New Information Collection; Survey of the Costs of AML/CFT Compliance

     Primary Executive branch Sep 30, 2025