Deadline reference
Currency transaction report filing
31 CFR 1010.306(a)(1). FinCEN, United States (federal). Event-relative; binding rule.
Not legal advice. The period or date below is quoted from the official source with its conditions; whether and how it applies depends on your firm's facts and your actual regulatory correspondence. Confirm it in the official source.
Status: Active. Last checked 2026-11-09. All references.
Who it applies to
Money services businesses, Broker-dealers.
Financial institutions filing a report required by 31 CFR 1010.311 or 1021.311.
Sources: [1] § 1010.306(a)(1)
Exclusions
No exclusions recorded.
The published period or date
- Official text
- shall be filed by the financial institution within 15 days following the day on which the reportable transaction occurred.
- Type
- Event-relative
- Trigger
- The day on which the reportable transaction occurred.
- Legal status
- Binding rule.
- Effective
- Not stated to present
- Conditions and transitions
- The rule states 15 days without saying business or calendar days, so no period value is recorded here. A copy of each report is retained for five years from the date of the report.
- Sources and locators
- [1] § 1010.306(a)(1) and (a)(2)
No due date is computed here. The toolkit does not interpret event-relative periods, count business days or hold a holiday calendar.
Cite
Cite the official source first. Then: Taft Compliance Group, Exam-prep toolkit (draft), deadline reference dl-ctr-filing, https://taftcompliance.com/resources/exam-prep-toolkit/deadlines/dl-ctr-filing, last checked 2026-11-09.
Sources
Office of the Federal Register, eCFR, 31 CFR 1010.306 Filing of reports. rule. § 1010.306(a)(1) and (a)(2).
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-31/subtitle-B/chapter-X/part-1010/section-1010.306
Checked 2026-11-09.
Supporting passage
(a)(1) A report required by § 1010.311 or § 1021.311, shall be filed by the financial institution within 15 days following the day on which the reportable transaction occurred. (2) A copy of each report filed pursuant to §§ 1010.311, 1010.313, 1020.315, 1021.311 and 1021.313, shall be retained by the financial institution for a period of five years from the date of the report.
Changes to this reference
No released changes.