Sanctions and financial crime compliance blog

• Getting a Weekly Sanctions Update With the Help of an AI Skill — An AI skill that delivers a short weekly sanctions update from trusted sources, laid out day by day for the past 10 days, and can run on its own every week.
• The Russia Sanctions Bill: What You Need to Know — A thorough analysis of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 as it stands.
• 10 New Restrictive Measures under the EU's 21st Russia Sanctions Package — The EU adopted its 21st sanctions package against Russia. Here are the ten new restrictive measures from the Council's official press release.
• Analyzing Root Causes of Sanctions Violations Against Your Compliance Program With the Help of a Claude Skill — A Claude skill that helps users analyze OFAC and OFSI enforcement actions and compare the root causes of violations against their own compliance program.
• Adjudicating Screening Alerts With the Help of a Claude Skill — A Claude skill that runs screening hits through a four-tier decision tree to classify alerts as true positive, false positive, or escalation — deterministically and with minimal token burn.
• Checking Sanctions Lists Updates with a Claude Skill — A Claude skill that turns each fresh round of OFAC, OFSI, and EU sanctions designations into a screening test set for analyst review.
• Welcome to the Sanctrust Blog — Notes on sanctions, export controls, KYC, and AML/CFT — written by the people doing the work.