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by nulbyte 1222 days ago
Sort of. If these are normal transactions given the customer's trade, no report is made. SARs are only filed if you are suspicious (that's what the S stands for) that a crime has occurred. This is where knowing your customer comes into play.

CTRs, on the other hand, have a limit of $10,000, and while it is aggregate, it's aggregated over a single business day. CTRs do not require suspicion. They are routinely filed for ordinary, legal transactions.

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Just go to bankersonline.com and see the kind of responses there. These AML folks rather file SARs for every trivial thing than otherwise.