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).