On October 14, 2025, the OFAC and FinCEN, in close coordination with the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), took complementary actions against criminal networks responsible for targeting citizens of the United States and other allied nations through online scams and the laundering of stolen funds. OFAC has sanctioned 146 targets within the Prince Group Transnational Criminal Organization, a Cambodia-based network led by Chen Zhi, known for online investment scams targeting Americans and others globally.

On October 9, 2025, FinCEN issued answers to four Frequently Asked Questions to clarify certain requirements related to suspicious activity reports (SARs). The FAQs were issued jointly with the Board, the FDIC, the NCUA, and the OCC.

On October 9, 2025, FinCEN renewed its Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs) that require US title insurance companies to identify natural persons behind shell companies used in non-financed purchases of residential real estate. The terms of the GTOs are effective beginning October 10, 2025.

On September 30, 2025, FinCEN issued a notice and request for comments on the proposed renewal, without change, of existing information collection requirements found in BSA regulations concerning information sharing between government agencies and financial institutions. 

On September 30, 2025, FinCEN announced that it will postpone reporting requirements of the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers Rule (RRE Rule) until March 1, 2026. FinCEN stated that this is to provide industry with more time to comply while still adequately protecting the U.S. financial system from money laundering, terrorist financing, and other serious illicit finance threats.

On September 16, 2025, the OFAC designated a pair of Iranian financial facilitators and more than a dozen Hong Kong- and United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based individuals and entities. These entities were sanctioned for their roles in coordinating funds transfers, including from the sale of Iranian oil, that benefit the IRGC-Qods Force (QF), and Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL).

On September 19, 2025, the OFAC published a new Unblocking/Transfer Report Form to support compliance with reporting requirements under the Reporting, Procedures and Penalties Regulations. According to the  OFAC, the new form offers a simplified way to report property that has been unblocked or transferred, which eases the burden on filers and improves OFAC's processing efficiency.

On September 12, 2025, the FDIC issued a notice and request for comment on a proposed information collection, a Survey of the Costs of AML/CFT Compliance. The survey seeks to gather information on the direct costs incurred by banks, savings associations, and credit unions in complying with the BSA/AML/CFT requirements, and the amount attributable to AML/CFT compliance that overlap with those of other activities such as fraud and credit monitoring. 

On September 8, 2025, the OFAC implemented sanctions against large network of scam centers across Southeast Asia that steal billions of dollars from Americans using forced labor and violence.  The action includes nine targets operating in Shwe Kokko, Burma and ten targets based in Cambodia.

On September 8, 2025, FinCEN issued a Notice to help financial institutions detect and disrupt financially motivated sextortion. According to FinCEN, financially motivated sextortion has been an increasingly common typology and has devastating effects on victims and their families.