On November 4, 2025, the OFAC sanctioned eight individuals and two entities for their role in laundering funds derived from a variety of illicit Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) schemes, including cybercrime and information technology (IT) worker fraud. According to the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team’s report, these operations have been linked to the funding for the DPRK’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs and destruction of physical computer equipment.

On October 23, 2025, FinCEN published a Financial Trend Analysis (FTA) identifying approximately $9 billion of potential Iranian shadow banking activity that occurred through U.S. correspondent accounts in 2024. The analysis draws on reports from U.S. financial institutions about transactions before the maximum pressure campaign and supplements FinCEN’s June advisory on Iran’s illicit oil smuggling, shadow banking, and weapons procurement activities.

On October 21, 2025, the Senate proposed a bill that would raise the reporting thresholds for currency transaction reports and suspicious activity reports. If enacted, the bill would require the Treasury Department to adjust the thresholds for inflation every five years.

On October 15, 2025, FinCEN issued a final rule that severs Cambodia-based Huione Group from the U.S. financial system. Huione Group is a key player in laundering proceeds from cyber heists by North Korea and transnational criminal organizations in Southeast Asia involved in virtual currency investment scams, such as "pig butchering" scams.

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).