United States: AML and sanctions news
In the United States, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers sanctions and FinCEN administers the Bank Secrecy Act and its anti-money laundering rules. The Department of Justice, the SEC, the CFTC and the banking regulators bring enforcement actions, and the State Department designates under its own sanctions authorities.
In the last 90 days the radar indexed 301 official and verified items affecting the United States, from 20 sources. The largest share was Financial Crime (72%). The newest, from Financial Times, was published on 16 Oct 2026.
- ITEMS, LAST 90 DAYS
- 301
- REGULATORS’ OWN NOTICES
- 254
- SOURCES
- 20
- LATEST ITEM
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest items
Regulators’ own notices (A1) and verified outlets (A2), newest first. Secondary press stays in the live feed.
Sources the radar reads here
Feeds checked every minute for the United States. How each one is graded: how scoring works.
- US CFTC - Enforcement
- Regulator, official source
- US Federal Reserve - Enforcement Actions
- Regulator, official source
- US FinCEN - Enforcement Actions
- Regulator, official source
- US FinCEN - Press Releases
- Regulator, official source
- US OFAC - Recent Actions
- Sanctions, official source
- US OCC - News Releases
- Regulator, official source
- US DOJ - Press Releases
- Law enforcement, official source
- US State Department - Press
- Sanctions, official source
- US ICE - News
- Law enforcement, official source
- US Secret Service - News
- Law enforcement, official source
- US SEC - Press Releases
- Regulator, official source
- Banking Dive
- Banking media
- CNBC - Finance
- General news
- CoinDesk
- Crypto media
- Compliance Week
- Specialist media
- Courthouse News
- Legal media
- Law360 - White Collar
- Legal media
- New York Times - Business
- General news
- WSJ - Markets
- General news
Put it to work
- AML Country Risk Index
- Free, no account. How risky the United States is for anti-money laundering, factor by factor.
- Adverse media screening and monitoring
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- How scoring works
- Source grades, categories and the risk score, factor by factor.
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