The SAR Activity Review – By the Numbers is a compilation of numerical data gathered from Suspicious Activity Report forms filed by financial institutions. It serves as a companion piece to The SAR Activity Review – Trends, Tips & Issues, which provides information about the preparation, use, and utility of Suspicious Activity Reports. By the Numbers is published once a year and incorporates numerical data covering a decade of Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filings through the most recent twelve-month period.
This report covers total Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filings by covered industries for 2011. This issue of By The Numbers, a staple of FinCEN’s analytical reports, features some significant changes that add value for FinCEN’s audience. Readers will see new pie charts, bar charts, and line graphs. As FinCEN transitions to a new integrated forms environment with improved technology it will continue to develop new, more informative models to illustrate the data. In this edition of BTN, readers will see new interactive tables with geographic summaries at the county level to enhance State graphical displays, or “ heat maps.” Similarly, FinCEN is providing metropolitan statistical area (MSA) summary tables of SAR data as well as spreadsheets illustrating filing rates and percentage changes for 2010 and 2011 in the “Characterizations of SARs” by State and Territories charts. Readers can access the data through hyperlinks embedded in the report.
Direct link to the report : here
Press release link from FinCen: here