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U.S. federal executive department that manages government finances, enforces sanctions, and oversees policy on currency, debt, and financial regulation.
IRS privacy chief Kathleen Walters had to contain the risk of 100,000 staff answering OPM's February 2025 email asking what they did last week. In the Guardian's account, the all-staff order landed first on the office built to stop disclosure.
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Russian banks moved to a state-run CA in August after GlobalSign mass-revoked its Russian customers' TLS certificates under May's US Treasury sanctions. Their customers now carry the problem, since Western browsers typically do not trust state-run CAs.
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The Cape Town Zone of Black Axe ran romance and advance fee scams from 2011 until South African police made arrests in 2021, and the accounts prosecutors traced also carried business email compromise proceeds.
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Scott Bessent told CNBC on Monday that humans, not the AI, are responsible, and that developers should not expect federal protection from liability. The industry's demand for a shield now has a public no from Treasury.
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Twenty-six attorneys general urged Congress to spare state AI laws, including Colorado's 30-day rule for explaining AI's role in adverse loan decisions. The letter asks nothing specific of banks, so the obligation lenders have to plan for starts in Colorado on Jan. 1 unless the Justice Department blocks it first.
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The federal government is on track to spend about $970 billion servicing its debt in fiscal 2025. The whole gap between that burden and corporate America's is attributed to when each side refinanced.
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Bills are funding a roughly $2 trillion deficit at nearly 22 percent of a debt stock above $40 trillion. The buyback aimed at holding the long end down is $4 billion. The ten-year has gone through 5 percent.
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VTB has been under full US blocking sanctions since February 2022. The September 9 Iran designation under Executive Order 13902 adds a third legal authority, and each one has to come off on its own.
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From January 2027 a rolling five-year deferral replaces the fixed December 2026 deadline, and the tracts themselves do not exist until Treasury designates them late in 2026. Sponsors are drafting documents now.
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The Treasury's holdings series has grown by about $16 trillion since 2022, but it counts equity marks alongside government funding, and the mobile private money now doing the buying answers to returns rather than to statecraft.
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Gross federal debt reached about $40.047 trillion on August 18. The trillion added since March annualises to a $2.4 trillion issuance pace and roughly $31 billion of fresh annual interest.
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Bessent's buyback calmed the 30-year for barely a session before yields rose again. With debt past $40 trillion and $500 billion of AI issuance in the queue, capital is getting dearer.
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