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Title 31—MONEY AND FINANCE > SUBTITLE IV—MONEY > CHAPTER 53—MONETARY TRANSACTIONS > SUBCHAPTER II—RECORDS AND REPORTS ON MONETARY INSTRUMENTS TRANSACTIONS

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“financial agency” means a person acting for a person (except for a country, a monetary or financial authority acting as a monetary or financial authority, or an international financial institution of which the United States Government is a member) as a financial institution, bailee, depository trustee, or agent, or acting in a similar way related to money, credit, securities, gold, a transaction in money, credit, securities or gold, or a service provided with respect to money, securities, futures, precious metals, stones and jewels, or value that substitutes for currency.

( Pub. L. 97–258 , Sept. 13, 1982 , 96 Stat. 995 ; Pub. L. 99–570, title I, § 1362 , Oct. 27, 1986 , 100 Stat. 3207–33 ; Pub. L. 100–690, title VI, § 6185(a) , (g)(1), Nov. 18, 1988 , 102 Stat. 4354 , 4357; Pub. L. 103–325, title IV , §§ 405, 409, Sept. 23, 1994 , 108 Stat. 2247 , 2252; Pub. L. 107–56, title III , §§ 321(a), (b), 359(a), 365(c)(1), (2)(A), Oct. 26, 2001 , 115 Stat. 315 , 328, 335; Pub. L. 108–458, title VI , §§ 6202(g), 6203(b), Dec. 17, 2004 , 118 Stat. 3746 ; Pub. L. 116–283, div. F, title LXI , §§ 6102(d)(1), 6110(a)(1), Jan. 1, 2021 , 134 Stat. 4553 , 4561.)

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