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...

If you’ve been reading Corruption, Crime and Compliance for a while, you already know we cover a lot of ground here, enforcement actions, sanctions developments, board governance, AI risk, and everything in between. But if you’re only catching these posts when they cross your feed, you’re missing a lot of the content we put out every week across several different channels. Here’s a quick rundown...

Part 1 of this series covered where EU AI Act enforcement genuinely stands today: prohibited practices enforceable since February 2025, general-purpose AI obligations running since August 2025, the Commission’s first formal investigations opened in June 2026 into hiring, credit scoring, and student monitoring AI systems, and full enforcement and fining authority active since August 2026. In Part 2, we look at what the Digital Omnibus...

For years, compliance officers could talk about the EU AI Act as a looming, mostly future obligation, something to plan for rather than something actively enforced. That era is over. As of August 2, 2026, the European Commission, acting through its European AI Office, holds formal investigative and enforcement authority over general-purpose AI model providers and over the Act’s prohibited AI practices, and the agency...

The House of Representatives voted 262 to 159 on the night of September 16 to approve a sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill, sending it to President Trump for his expected signature. The legislation, renamed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act after the late South Carolina senator who championed it for more than a year before his death in July, cleared the...

Part 1 of this series explained why AI vendor relationships break the assumptions built into most standard software procurement templates, and where those legacy templates leave organizations exposed: silent or vague data training rights, indemnification that doesn’t reach AI-specific harms, no meaningful audit rights, and liability caps that quietly undercut whatever protections do exist. Part 2 gets specific about what to actually put in the...