[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR586.317]

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                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY
 
 CHAPTER V--OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 586--FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA (SERBIA & MONTENEGRO) KOSOVO SANCTIONS REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart C--General Definitions
 
Sec. 586.317  U.S. financial institution.

    The term U.S. financial institution means any U.S. entity (including 
foreign branches) that is engaged in the business of accepting deposits, 
making, granting, transferring, holding, or

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brokering loans or credits, or purchasing or selling foreign exchange, 
securities, commodity futures or options, or procuring purchasers and 
sellers thereof, as principal or agent; including, but not limited to, 
depository institutions, banks, savings banks, trust companies, 
securities brokers and dealers, commodity futures and options brokers 
and dealers, forward contract and foreign exchange merchants, securities 
and commodities exchanges, clearing corporations, investment companies, 
employee benefit plans, and U.S. holding companies, U.S. affiliates, or 
U.S. subsidiaries of any of the foregoing. This term includes those 
branches, offices and agencies of foreign financial institutions which 
are located in the United States, but not such institutions' foreign 
branches, offices, or agencies.