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15 Jul 2025 Interactive Brokers LLCOFAC: USD 11.8 million settlement with Interactive Brokers over services for customers in sanctioned jurisdictions and blocked persons USABreaches of sanctions and embargoes €10.1m

Online broker Interactive Brokers LLC of Greenwich, Connecticut, is paying USD 11,832,136 under a settlement with OFAC for apparent violations of multiple sanctions programmes. According to OFAC's findings, between July 2016 and January 2024 the company provided brokerage and investment services to persons in Iran, Cuba, Syria and Crimea, processed trades in securities covered by the Chinese Military-Industrial Complex programme, carried out transactions involving blocked persons under several programmes and made prohibited new investment in Russia; 12,367 transactions were involved in total. OFAC treated the apparent violations as non-egregious and voluntarily self-disclosed and credited significant remediation and cooperation; the base penalty was USD 60,130,059. Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), enforcement release "Interactive Brokers LLC Settles with OFAC for $11,832,136 Related to Apparent Violations of Multiple Sanctions Regulations", 15 July 2025, https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/934501/download?inline; summarised in our own words.

Authority / court
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Area of law
Sanctions and export control · Breaches of sanctions and embargoes
Legal basis
E.O. 13685 § 1(a)(iii), E.O. 14024 §§ 1, 4(a), E.O. 14071 § 1(a)(i); 31 C.F.R. § 515.201 (Kuba), §§ 542.201, 542.207 (Syrien), § 560.204 (Iran), § 583.201 (Global Magnitsky), § 586.201 (Chinese Military-Industrial Complex), § 587.201 (Russian Harmful Foreign Activities), § 591.201 (Venezuela); Vergleich nach den Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines, 31 C.F.R. part 501, app. A
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Published
15 Jul 2025

Original amount 11,832,136 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 15 Jul 2025.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link

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