UK financial sanctions guidance
Guidance and webinars to help you understand how to comply with UK financial sanctions.
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation produces guidance and webinars to help you understand how to comply with UK financial sanctions.
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Financial Sanctions: The Basics
OFSI’s video series, ‘Financial Sanctions: The Basics’, provides a high-level introduction to financial sanctions and OFSI
General Guidance
Guidance relating to all financial sanctions
Financial sanctions general guidance
Sectoral Guidance
Guidance relating to specific industries or sectors
Financial Services Threat Assessment Report
Legal Services Threat Assessment Report
Property and Related Services Threat Assessment Report
Russian Oil Services Ban
Guidance, general licences and reporting forms relating to the Russian oil services ban and oil price cap exception
Guidance for Russian oil services ban and oil price cap exception
Advisories
Advisories relating to financial sanctions
Advisory on North Korean IT Workers
Oil Price Cap (OPC) Advisory: Evasion Linked to Product Origin Manipulation
Webinars & Events
To find out more about our upcoming webinars and events, register or to watch our previous ones, visit our webinars & events page
Updates to this page
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Link to Video Guidance page added
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Property and Related Services Threat Assessment Report added.
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Legal services threat assessment added.
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Link added for signing up to the new joint UK sanctions email alert service, provided by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI).
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Financial Services Threat Assessment Report added.
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Oil Price Cap (OPC) Advisory: Evasion Linked to Product Origin Manipulation link added.
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New guidance for Insolvency Practitioners and Letting Agents added. Guidance for High Value Dealers updated.
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Advisories section added. North Korean IT Workers Advisory added.
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In line with our announcement of 13 February 2024, the Financial Sanctions Guidance for Ransomware has been converted from PDF to a digital format.
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The Enforcement and Monetary Penalties Guidance has been updated. This update communicates that OFSI will now always apply the most recent iteration of its Enforcement guidance to cases. Chapter 3 of the guidance, which covers case assessment, gives details on the change. Other updates are also primarily to Chapter 3. The guidance now better explains how we apply and split the ‘case factors’ that OFSI uses to assess suspected breaches of financial sanctions. It introduces two new distinct case factors, “Knowledge, intention and reasonable cause to suspect” and “Cooperation” that were previously included more generally in the guidance. Chapter 6 also includes a small edit to the delegation of ministerial reviews of monetary penalties.
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OFSI have launched FAQs to provide short and technical guidance.
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OFSI has published its refreshed guidance for the maritime shipping sector.
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OFSI Travel Guidance moved from 'thematic' subsection, to 'licensing - supportive guidance' subsection.
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Licensing principles and framework link added to general guidance subsection, providing detail on the delegated decision making authority and associated principles.
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Added translation