October 28, 2026, 12 Noon EDT Sign Up HERE OFAC’s 2019 Framework for Compliance Commitments is still the foundational document every sanctions compliance program should be built on, but if your program hasn’t been updated since then, it no longer reflects how sanctions enforcement actually works today. Since 2023, the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security, and OFAC have...

Operation Economic Outcast has rightly drawn the most attention this month, and we’ve given it the two-part deep dive it deserves. But it wasn’t the only major economic-policy development in the same 30-day window. Three other stories are worth a quick roundup, because together they show just how many directions U.S. economic policy is pulling in at once right now: Syria, pursuing more sanctions relief...

Part 1 of this deep dive covered the two developments inside Operation Economic Outcast that hit compliance functions first: the sectoral expansion of Executive Order 13902 into aviation, digital assets, gold, shipping, and technology, and the sweeping suspension of general licenses that had authorized narrow, often noncommercial Iran-related activity. Part 2 turns to the other half of the campaign, and arguably the part that shows...

Treasury’s Operation Economic Outcast is the most consequential sanctions development of the year, and it deserves more than a passing mention in a broader roundup. This is Part 1 of a focused, two-part deep dive on the campaign. Here, we cover the two pieces of Operation Economic Outcast that create the most immediate, concrete compliance obligations: the expansion of Iran sectoral sanctions to five new...

Deloitte UK just published a workforce survey on generative AI use that every compliance officer should read carefully, because it puts real numbers behind something many of us have suspected for a while: employees aren’t waiting for their employer’s blessing before they start using AI tools at work. Nearly a third of generative AI users bring their own tools into the workplace and use them...

DOJ announced two significant executive sentencings within a day of each other this week, and while the underlying conduct is different, a bank CEO’s fraud and sanctions evasion scheme versus an oil trader’s foreign bribery scheme, both cases carry the same underlying message for compliance officers: individual accountability for executive-level misconduct remains a live, active DOJ priority, and prison sentences in the range of four...