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New guidelines to US banks with offshore relationships

In a bid to cut down on illegal activity, the US Federal Reserve has produced new guidelines designed to tighten up the practices of American banks who extend cheque-writing privileges to the customers of a foreign bank through ‘Payable Through Accounts’.The guidelines were published in September and form part of the latest edition of the Federal Reserve’s ‘Bank Secrecy Act Manual’.