Oversight Agency

Unknown man walks into the beautiful glass office of Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank has alerted financial regulators of potential breaches of EU sanctions rules involving Russian clients after discovering that its retail unit had accepted deposits of more than €100,000 from individuals subject to the bloc-wide prohibitions.

Daniel Ortega, Presidente de Nicaragua recibió a la delegación del Ecuador encabezada por el Canciller Ricardo Patiño. El Ministro del Interior, José Serrano, también estuvo presente. Foto: Fernanda LeMarie - Cancillería del Ecuador.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on Nicaraguan government officials, firms operating in Nicaragua’s gold sector, and individuals tied to the forcible seizure of a U.S.-owned mining asset. 

A photograph of Mojtaba Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, as purportedly seen on 10 April 2026

The U.S. Treasury imposed a fresh round of Iran-related sanctions on Wednesday, targeting what it described as the illicit oil-shipping empire of Iranian magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani and a Hezbollah-linked oil-for-gold laundering network tied to Venezuela. 

An AI-edited image of Claude on a phone being asked to commit securities fraud.

U.S. lawyers are increasingly warning clients not to treat artificial-intelligence chatbots as confidential sounding boards after a federal judge in New York ruled that a former financial-services executive could not withhold chatbot-generated materials from prosecutors in a securities-fraud case.