OFAC targets 5 senior Nicaraguan officials, freezing their U.S. assets and striking at the regime’s financial, labor, communications, and military apparatus used to repress political opponents 

Action targets senior figures leading Nicaragua’s financial-intelligence, telecommunications, labour and military-intelligence bodies for supporting the regime’s campaign against political opponents and civil society. The designations block any property or interests...

FATF’s Feb 2026 Plenary Outcomes raise the global AML/CFT bar, adding Kuwait and Papua New Guinea to the grey list, updating Iran on the black list, and targeting cyber-enabled fraud and virtual asset risks

The FATF Plenary addresses global illicit finance threats, adopting mutual evaluation reports for Austria, Italy, and Singapore, approving new guidance on cyber-enabled fraud and emerging virtual asset risks, and adding Kuwait and Papua New Guinea to its “grey list”...