OFAC designates cyber-related individuals, crypto addresses, and Cuba entities to SDN List
Bank and virtual-asset compliance teams must screen and block the newly listed SDNs, crypto addresses, and 'Linked To' affiliates
Sanctions
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UK and EU designate 24 Russian cyber and information-operations targets under sanctions
UK financial institutions must screen and block the 24 newly designated Russian cyber and information-operations targets, freeze their UK assets, and avoid facilitating any ransomware payment to them
OFAC designates Ali Ansari, Smart Global Limited and three Iranian exchange houses
Sanctions-screening and correspondent-banking teams must block and report the newly designated Iranian financier, holding company, three exchange houses and front companies, and confine any Smart Global wind-down to General License Y
DNB fines ABN AMRO €8.5m for structural AML client due-diligence failures
Dutch banks must conduct critical, thorough ongoing monitoring of high-risk clients — verifying client statements against objective data and acting on risk signals — following DNB's €8.5m AML fine on ABN AMRO
RBI notifies regulated entities of UNSC ISIL/Al-Qaida sanctions list amendment
RBI-regulated entities must screen accounts against the amended UNSC ISIL/Al-Qaida listing and act under Section 51A UAPA, ensuring no account is held in the listed name
OFAC revokes Iran General License X, sets July 17 wind-down under General License X1
US persons must complete wind-down of GL X-authorised Iranian crude and petrochemical transactions by 12:01 a.m. EDT July 17, 2026; no new transactions from July 7
UK sanctions Russian chemical-weapons developers
Sanctions-screening teams at UK-regulated financial institutions must block and freeze UK-jurisdiction funds and payments linked to the seven named individuals and the sanctioned research institutes
EU adds six individuals to Annex I chemical-weapons sanctions over Navalny poisoning
EU sanctions-screening and compliance teams must add the six newly listed individuals to denied-party filters and freeze funds and economic resources on any match
OFAC requires U.S. persons to file 2026 Annual Report of Blocked Property by 30 September
U.S. persons holding OFAC-blocked property as of 30 June 2026 must file the Annual Report of Blocked Property via the OFAC Reporting System by 30 September 2026, or commit an RPPR violation
OFAC sanctions PCC-linked Brazilian crypto and payments network and adds ISIS-K crypto addresses
US-nexus sanctions and crypto-monitoring teams must block the PCC-linked Brazilian network (incl. a Pix payments firm) and add ISIS-K's newly listed XMR and TRX addresses to on-chain screening
OFAC designates CJNG fuel-smuggling facilitators — 2 individuals and 9 entities
US-nexus sanctions-screening teams must block the newly SDN-listed CJNG fuel-smuggling network — 2 individuals and 9 Mexican/UK entities — plus any entity they own 50%+
OFAC adds CJNG fuel-smuggling network to SDN List and removes four Russia-related Indian firms
US-nexus sanctions-screening teams must block the newly SDN-listed CJNG network — 2 individuals and 9 Mexican/UK entities — and remove the 4 delisted Russia-related Indian firms from filters