On June 4, 2026, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control did something it had never done before. It placed the sitting President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List. He was not added alone. OFAC designated his wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza, alongside Alejandro Castro Espin, Raul Alejandro Castro […]
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The Trump administration’s latest polarizing proposition once again places the domestic financial sphere on the forefront of the global war on dirty money. Unlike many of the actions preceding it however, the President’s latest executive order, coined Restoring Integrity to America’s Financial System, may ultimately prove to be one of the most consequential anti-money laundering […]
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This week’s brief leads with the biggest US AML rewrite in roughly 40 years, layered against an escalating run of mid-tier enforcement on three continents, two FinCEN alerts that reset Iran and trafficking typologies, and a Russia sanctions tempo that is now drifting faster between Washington, London, and Brussels than most screening vendors can keep […]
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