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UK financial sanctions guidance

Guidance and webinars to help you understand how to comply with UK financial sanctions.

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From:
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
Published:
13 February 2024
Last updated:
18 August 2025
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  1. Art Market Participants and High Value Dealers Threat Assessment Report added. Cryptoassets Threat Assessment Report added.

  2. Link to Video Guidance page added

  3. Property and Related Services Threat Assessment Report added.

  4. Legal services threat assessment added.

  5. 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).

  6. Financial Services Threat Assessment Report added.

  7. Oil Price Cap (OPC) Advisory: Evasion Linked to Product Origin Manipulation link added.

  8. New guidance for Insolvency Practitioners and Letting Agents added. Guidance for High Value Dealers updated.

  9. Advisories section added. North Korean IT Workers Advisory added.

  10. In line with our announcement of 13 February 2024, the Financial Sanctions Guidance for Ransomware has been converted from PDF to a digital format.

  11. 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.

  12. OFSI have launched FAQs to provide short and technical guidance.

  13. OFSI has published its refreshed guidance for the maritime shipping sector.

  14. OFSI Travel Guidance moved from 'thematic' subsection, to 'licensing - supportive guidance' subsection.

  15. Licensing principles and framework link added to general guidance subsection, providing detail on the delegated decision making authority and associated principles.

  16. Added translation

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

Financial Sanctions: The Basics

General Guidance

Guidance relating to all financial sanctions

Financial sanctions general guidance

Enforcement and monetary penalties

Additional guidance for licensing

Geographic Guidance

Guidance relating to specific countries

Russia

Libya

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

Art Market Participants and High Value Dealers Threat Assessment Report

Cryptoassets Threat Assessment Report

Charities and NGOs

Maritime

High Value Dealers and Art Market Participants

Lettings Agents

Insolvency Practitioners

Thematic Guidance

Guidance relating to specific themes

Importers and exporters

Ransomware

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

General licences, reporting forms and advisories

Advisories

Advisories relating to financial sanctions

Advisory on North Korean IT Workers

Oil Price Cap (OPC) Advisory: Evasion Linked to Product Origin Manipulation

Frequently Asked Questions

Technical guidance relating to all topics

FAQs

FAQs (Withdrawn)

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