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May 18, 2001


To: The Chief Executive Officer
All Farm Credit System Institutions

From: Roland E. Smith, Director
Office of Examination

Subject: Copies of an Alert and Financial Institution Letters


Attached are copies of the following OCC Alert, issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and Financial Institution Letters (FILs), issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). We have also included links to websites for those of you who wish to access them through the Internet.

Alert/FIL # Subject

2001-3	Fictitious Financial Programs Erroneously Attributed to the Federal Reserve http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/alert/2001-3.txt
8-2001	Stolen Cashier’s Checks and Money Orders http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2001/fil0108.html Checks and Money Orders:
11-2001	Entities That May Be Conducting Banking Operations in the United States Without Authorization http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2001/fil0111.html
12-2001	Entities That May Be Conducting Banking Operations in Canada or the United States Without Authorization http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2001/fil0112.html
15-2001	Entities That May Be Conducting Banking Operations in the United States Without Authorization http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2001/fil0115.html
27-2001	Missing Cashier’s Checks http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2001/fil0127.html
28-2001	Counterfeit Cashier’s Checks http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2001/fil0128.html

These documents contain information that may prevent your institution from suffering a financial loss, and include addresses should you have information about the subject programs, entities or instruments. This memorandum complements similar OCC Alerts, FILs, and other information previously shared by the Farm Credit Administration with Farm Credit System institutions. Please keep it for future reference. For your information, all OCC Alerts published since January of 1995 may be found on the OCC’s Web site at http://www.occ.treas.gov under “Public Information” and “Issuances.” Additionally, all FILs published since January of 1995 may be found on the FDIC’s Web site at http://www.fdic.gov under “Newsroom, Events & FOIA.”

If you have any questions about this memorandum, please call Thomas J. Holland, Director, Special Examination and Supervision Division, Office of Examination, at (703) 883-4483, or correspond on the Internet at e-mail address hollandt@fca.gov.

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