On October 23, FinCEN released a new Financial Trend Analysis identifying approximately $9 billion in potential Iranian shadow banking activity that flowed through U.S. correspondent accounts in 2024.
The report noted that if the conflict continues for a longer period, risks in the shadow banking sector could rise, while the ...
In an escalation of efforts to curb Iran’s illicit financial activities, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions on September 16, 2025, ...
Iran’s central bank appears to have acquired more than $500 million in dollar-backed digital assets, according to blockchain ...
Bank deleveraging around the world continues to hinder formal channels of credit, which, in turn, is driving the growth of credit through nonbank intermediaries. Such shadow banking, as it’s called, ...