ALERT 2000-5
Type: Unauthorized Banking
Subject: Digital Commerce Bank, Ltd
         (Kuiu Thlingit Nation)
Date: March 29, 2000

TO:  Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State
     Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the
     Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance
     Corporation; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy
     Comptrollers (Districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers;
     District Counsel and Examining Personnel

RE:  Digital Commerce Bank, Ltd (Kuiu Thlingit Nation)
     Top Floor, Atlantis Building
     Shallow Draught
     Bridgetown, Barbados

Information has been received that the subject is transacting
bank depository business in the United States without
authorization.  The subject is reported to have a bank charter
issued by an entity known as the Kuiu Thlingit Nation, a 
non-recognized jurisdiction of indeterminate origin.  The chartering
jurisdiction claims to be a tribe of people native to the state
of Alaska.  The tribe is not recognized by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs nor the state of Alaska.

Subject entity has no license or charter from the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency, nor the state of Alaska. The
address in Bridgetown, Barbados, is stated to be the location of
its principal office.

Any information which you may have concerning this matter should
be brought to the attention of:
               Mail Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
                    Enforcement & Compliance Division
                    250 E Street, SW
                    Washington, DC   20219
               Fax  (202) 874-5301 
               Internet  http://www.occ.treas.gov


                                                    
Daniel P. Stipano
Director
Enforcement & Compliance Division