Sanctions Pulse 2025 Full Year Results

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.

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