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FinCEN intends to issue a final rule, pursuant to section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act, that finds transactions involving ten identified Mexico-based gambling establishments to be a class of transactions of primary money laundering concern, and imposes a special measure to: (1) prohibit U.S. financial institutions from opening or maintaining a correspondent account for any foreign banking institution if such account is used to process transactions involving any of the gambling establishments, and (2) require U.S. financial institutions to apply special due diligence to their correspondent accounts that is reasonably designed to guard against the use of such accounts to process transactions involving any of the gambling establishments.