[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR538.316]

[Page 701]
 
                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY
 
 CHAPTER V--OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 538_SUDANESE SANCTIONS REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart C_General Definitions
 
Sec. 538.316  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 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.