Sanctions Pulse 2025 Full Year Results

Understand the scale and pace of global sanctions activity between January-December 2025  with this in-depth summary of data from four core regulators: the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and United Kingdom (UK). This ebook details global sanctions activity throughout 2025 and provides predictions on 2026 trends.

You can use these insights to inform effective sanctions compliance in a challenging geopolitical landscape. Get a data-driven look into the current direction of global sanctions policies and gain deeper insights into how emerging fragmentation and policy divergence across the core regulatory bodies may impact your business. 

Key takeaways:

• The 2025 pace of sanctions change remained high, despite a slight reduction from 2024 activity, with 265 list updates and 3,858 net additions across the four lists.
• Global sanctions trends in 2025 illustrate signs of emerging fragmentation and policy divergence across the four core regulatory bodies.
• OFAC remains the largest sanctions issuer, yet sanctions activity shows significant acceleration in the EU and UK, adding 46% and 175% more targets respectively year-over-year.
• The majority of global sanctions policy continues to concentrate on Syria, Iran and Russia, albeit with varying degrees of focus.

Optimise your sanctions strategy and strengthen your compliance stance across diverging sets of guidance with this detailed overview. Stay agile as economic and geopolitical developments continue evolving and learn what to expect as the 2026 regulatory outlook takes shape.

Stay informed. Stay compliant. Stay ahead.

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