Efiling in SAS Anti Money Laundering
The purpose of this post is to discuss each of these steps, including the jobs and macros that must be run to achieve these steps.
First, the regulatory reports included in the e-file must be validated. You click Validate link from the user interface, which executes the rr_job_validate_driver macro. This macro requires the rr_sar_validate.xsl and EFL_SARXBatchSchema.zip files, which are needed to validate the SARX report UI data and display FInCEN-provided error codes and item numbers. Both files must be in the xml folder located at SAS Content\Product\SAS Anti-Money Laundering\xml folder in SAS Job Execution. Also, the rr_error_code table is needed by this macro, which contains error codes and descriptions. This table is in the kc schema.
Next, is the step to generate e-files. A nightly batch job, rr_job_efile_fincen_driver, runs. The job selects all the reports with the correct status and includes them in an e-file. It’s important to mention that if the e-file has an attachment, then it is a ZIP, and the user must extract the XML and the zip-inside-the-zip containing the CSV attachment.
The rr_job_efile_fincen_driver calls the rr_efile_fincen_driver macro, and the rr_efile_fincen_driver macro consists of five other macros that are responsible for e-file generation.
rr_efile_fincen_driver is the main macro that executes e-file generation. This macro looks at all the ready to submit reports and executes based on report types.
The rr_datahub_type_access macro checks whether the user has the permission to update a regulatory report and to create and update an e-file.
The rr_efile_fincen_gen_xml macro generates the raw XML file based on the report data, and it further transforms the raw XML info the format required by the regulators.
The rr_efile_fincen_sar_attach macro adds a ZIP file to the report with an attachment.
The rr_efile_file_updt macro copies e-files from the work directory to the SAS folder.
The rr_efile_db_updt macro generates the JSON request to update reports and e-files in the database. This macro also updates the report status to “E-file generated.”
The next step is submitting the e-file to regulators. The e-file can be sent to FinCEN via either manual submission or Secure Direct Transfer Mode (SDTM). After the e-file is sent to FinCEN, the agency reviews the e-file and produces an acknowledgement/response file. The e-filer downloads the acknowledgment file and then saves this file to a particular location in SAS Drive
After the acknowledgment file is in the correct location, the response file gets analyzed. Another nightly batch job, rr_job_resp_fincen_copy_xml, uploads the response files from the operating system to the SAS Viya file system.
Then the rr_job_resp_fincen_process job runs to process all the files in the response folder and updates the e-file status and report status accordingly.
It’s important to mention that these jobs can be run outside of batch using SAS® Job Execution Web Application.
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