OFAC urged financial institutions to adopt a risk-based approach to designing sanctions compliance strategies for novel instant payment systems.

The District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted a motion to dismiss a tax refund suit relating to cryptocurrency staking rewards on mootness grounds after the IRS issued the refund.

A broker-dealer engaged in the private placement of equity securities settled FINRA charges for soliciting customer purchases of the relevant security during a "restricted period."

A broker-dealer settled FINRA charges for failing to timely acquire shares of a security to close out "fail-to-deliver" positions in compliance with short sale regulations.

OFAC sanctioned 14 people considered crucial to Russia's military-industrial complex as well as 278 members of Russia's legislature for enabling an attempted annexation of sovereign Ukrainian territory.