---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 C.F.R. § 597.319"
title: "31"
number: "597.319"
heading: "U.S. financial institution."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/31/597.319"
---

# §597.319. U.S. financial institution.


The term U.S. financial institution means:

- (a) Any financial institution organized under the laws of the United States, including such financial institution's foreign branches;
- (b) Any financial institution operating or doing business in the United States; or
- (c) Those branches, offices and agencies of foreign financial institutions which are located in the United States, but not such foreign financial institutions' other foreign branches, offices, or agencies.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1189; 18 U.S.C. 2339B; 31 U.S.C. 321(b); Pub. L. 101-410, 104 Stat. 890, as amended (28 U.S.C. 2461 note).

### Source

Source: 62 FR 52495, Oct. 8, 1997, unless otherwise noted.