The USA PATRIOT ACT, is designed to detect, deter and punish terrorists in the United States
and abroad. The Act imposes anti-money laundering requirements on brokerage firms and
financial institutions. As part of our required program, we will ask you to provide various
identification documents or other information to verify your identity as required by Federal law. In
most circumstances, until you provide the information or documents we need, we will not be able
to open an account or effect any transactions for you. We thank you for your patience and hope
that you will support us in our efforts to deny terrorist groups access to America’s financial
system.
