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A senior Treasury Department official is preparing to resign after privately raising objections to a White House-backed initiative aimed at alleged fraud tied to the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota.

The OCC proposed a regulatory framework to implement the GENIUS Act, outlining requirements for stablecoin issuers and for certain stablecoin-related custody activities. 

Waste crime and trafficking is expanding globally, fueled by profit incentives in a fast-growing waste-management industry and compounded by major blind spots in official data, according to a newly released report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). 

Newly released U.S. Justice Department emails and documents offer a deeper look at Jeffrey Epstein’s unusual relationship with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank AG courted, reports by Bloomberg and the Financial Times show. 

Western governments marked the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine with new measures targeting the Kremlin’s revenue streams and enabling networks, despite stalled efforts by the EU to approve a broad sanctions package.

The White House may soon call on U.S. banks to collect and report citizenship data on their customers as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, according to new reporting by The Wall Street Journal. 

The Federal Reserve on Monday proposed a new rule that would prohibit its examiners penalizing institutions over the “reputation risk” they face from customers—a policy shift that aligns with ongoing litigation brought by President Donald Trump against JPMorgan Chase. 

The UK unveiled its biggest Russia sanctions package in years on Tuesday, targeting Moscow’s shadow fleet and the key networks and infrastructure that have helped keep crude exports flowing since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

The White House is weighing a new round of national-security tariffs on several industries after a Supreme Court ruling last week struck down many of President Trump’s second-term levies, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

Jeffrey Epstein held a retail current account and a savings account at BNP Paribas from 2008 until mid-2018, according to documents released by the U.S. Justice Department and reported by Le Monde.