On 20 March 2025, OFSI announced a monetary penalty of £465,000 against Herbert Smith Freehills CIS LLP (“HSF Moscow”) for breaches of UK financial sanctions on Russia, linked to its illegal invasion of Ukraine. The penalty relates to six payments …
In October 2024, representatives from the United Kingdom’s (UK) Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) convened in Washington, DC at our annual technical exchange, marking the second …
Earlier this month, sanctions leads and implementers from across the Crown Dependencies (CDs) and Overseas Territories (OTs) gathered in London for the fourth annual CDs and OTs Sanctions Forum. Sanctions Implementation in the CDs and OTs The CDs and OTs …
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) is committed to providing high-quality, widely accessible and easy to understand guidance to support our users to implement financial sanctions. As part of this commitment, we are always looking for ways to improve …
Read OFSI's latest blog from Giles Thomson about his new role as Director of OFSI and economic crime
OFSI director Rena Lalgie reflects on the last four years
Find out what OFSI got up to in the last financial year by reading our latest annual review
Since OFSI last blogged on this subject, we have substantially increased the scope and ambition of our international engagement. OFSI is now just over 3 years old. In this time, we have built up a wealth of experience and we …
Find out what OFSI got up to in 2018 and what's coming up this year
...perspective. The FATF report is a significant staging post but not the end. We will use it as a catalyst to build on our achievements. Rena Lalgie Director of OFSI....