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The week in compliance, every Friday
Sanctions moves, enforcement actions and the policy signals behind them, each read against the issuing authority's own notice and each with the action it implies. Every issue keeps its own permanent address. Issues before 21 August 2026 are still being added.
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- Issue 19313Europe locks in, Washington loads up.Brussels froze its Russia list in place until 2029, Washington signed its toughest Russia and Iran sanctions law in years, and OFAC went after another Iranian crypto exchange. A leak from Curaçao's gambling regulator put hidden ownership back on the agenda, while the enforcement file was about basics: out-of-date policies and missed suspicious transaction reports.25 September 2026
- Issue 18322Iran ran the weekTwo OFAC tranches, a $61m civil forfeiture over TRON-based USD Tether and a $560k Hamas crypto seizure landed inside seven days. Every one of them closed on a crypto rail. The message is that sanctions enforcement is now inseparable from the stablecoin, wallet-attribution and adverse-media stack sitting inside your compliance surface.18 September 2026
- Issue 17241OFAC hits 36 Iran aviation targets. OFSI fines Citibank London GBP 4.7m. Pierre Mirabaud convicted in Switzerland. Europol dismantles 'Dubai Bank' underground network.Seven stories for the week ending 11 September 2026, drawn from a wide source sweep: OFAC Recent Actions and Treasury press, the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee 1267/1989/2253, the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), the US Department of Justice, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, Europol with the Spanish National Police, and FinCEN, with cross-checks against ACAMS and Fintech Global. This week clusters around the OFAC Operation Economic Outcast Iran aviation designations, an OFSI penalty on Citibank London, a joint DoJ and OFAC takedown of the Xinbi Guarantee scam marketplace, the Swiss TPF conviction of former Swiss Bankers Association president Pierre Mirabaud on corruption and money-laundering charges, the Europol and Spanish Policia Nacional dismantling of the 'Dubai Bank' underground banking network with 21 arrests and EUR 20 million frozen, a UN 1267 amendment refreshing the ISIL and Al-Qaida consolidated list, and a fresh FinCEN alert on approximately USD 12.7 billion of digital-asset investment-scam activity. Curated for compliance and risk leaders across Africa and beyond.11 September 2026
- Issue 16342OFSI fines Citibank’s London branch £4.7m. FinCEN lands a record $125m on UBS. OFAC blocks Banco Exterior de Cuba.Nine stories for the week ending 4 September, drawn from a wide source sweep: the OFSI penalty notice, FinCEN news and consent orders, FINTRAC news releases, OFAC recent-actions and Treasury press, the US State Department, the UK Gambling Commission, AUSTRAC, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and industry press coverage. The heaviest item is OFSI’s £4,732,830.58 penalty on Citibank, N.A. London Branch for 970 payments worth £19.7 million that breached the Russia and Global Anti-Corruption Regulations, rated Level 4, the top of OFSI’s seriousness framework. Alongside it, FinCEN’s $125 million penalty on UBS Financial Services, the largest BSA penalty ever imposed on a broker-dealer, reads as the recidivism case of the year. FINTRAC penalised two Maritime gaming Crown corporations on 3 September. On the same day OFAC added Raúl Castro’s grandson and five Cuban state entities to the SDN List, including Banco Exterior de Cuba, the state bank that channels payments for imported food, fuel and medicine. The Operation Economic Outcast Iran campaign extended into UAE banking access on 28 August, and OFAC amended eight Venezuela General Licences on 27 August. On the framework side, MAS published draft legislation for its stablecoin regime and FinCEN identified nearly $13 billion in suspected overseas scam-centre digital-asset flows. Curated for compliance and risk leaders across Africa and beyond.4 September 2026