Senator Richard Blumenthal's inquiry requested that Cantor Fitzgerald explain how it monitors Tether's compliance with banking and sanctions laws, and details of steps taken to investigate allegations of illicit finance and sanctions evasion

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Polygon Labs' Open Money Stack U.S. payments business is registered as a money services business with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

Coinme agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with 34 state regulators on October 8, 2026 over alleged Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering failures.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a final reputation-risk rule on April 7, 2026, prohibiting supervisors from using anti-money laundering concerns as a pretext for reputation-risk supervision.

A7 International utilizes an AI-driven compliance and routing system to analyze sender, beneficiary, and jurisdiction risk factors to select optimal payment paths.

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the A7 Network on October 1, 2026, alleging its payment infrastructure facilitated transactions for sanctioned Russian and Iranian entities.

U.S. FinCEN reported that entities operating as A7 Sub-Agents processed over $17 billion in transactions between January 2025 and June 2026.

Financial Privacy Inc. holds OffMarket's master viewing key in a secure enclave under a multisignature arrangement with StarkWare, screening deposits against sanctions and reviewing legal requests for transaction data.

VersaBank's VUSD tokenized deposits incorporate technology enabling regulators to freeze, seize, and burn deposits identified as participating in illegal activities.

Zhimin Qian pleaded guilty to money laundering offenses in September 2025.

Ripple Prime Global CEO Michael Higgins stated that Ripple Prime's real-world asset-linked perpetual swap product gives institutions another source of liquidity built on regulated infrastructure and focused on anti-money laundering standards

A7 International requires individual users to undergo identity verification (KYC) and corporate clients to complete corporate data verification (KYB) before submitting invoices.

The Bank Secrecy Act establishes financial reporting requirements, including thresholds that trigger suspicious activity reports

U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control rules prohibit U.S. virtual currency exchanges and wallet hosts from facilitating cryptocurrency transactions involving blocked Russian entities like Sberbank

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed full blocking sanctions on Sberbank in April 2022 under Executive Order 14024

Zhimin Qian pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud offenses and was sentenced in November 2025 to 11 years and eight months in prison

A New York Times article reported on a "dire economic crisis" in Iran resulting from sanctions, including "Operation Economic Outcast."

Empire Market operators encouraged users to run their cryptocurrency funds through tumbling and mixing services to obscure transactions

U.S. federal authorities seized $400 million in cryptocurrency, cash, and real estate linked to darknet bitcoin mixing service Helix

Governments should ban cryptocurrency mixing services to prevent darknet money laundering

Drug traffickers and other criminals used darknet bitcoin mixing service Helix to launder at least 354,468 bitcoin, according to the U.S. Department of Justice