Scott Bessent

The Twenty-Year Fight Over Investment Adviser Money Laundering Rules

U.S. Treasury Secretary - Overseeing FinCEN's review and potential revision of investment adviser AML rule

Rule Changes • ongoing

Treasury Goes After Mexico’s “Gasoline Cartel”

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury - Leading Treasury’s cartel-focused sanctions push

Rule Changes • ongoing

Trump’s Venezuela “Blockade” Turns Sanctions Into a Navy Problem

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury - Expanded financial pressure with new Venezuela-linked designations and a Citgo-related licensing move that intersects with creditor litigation and asset-sale proceedings.

Force in Play • ongoing

TikTok’s U.S. Escape Hatch: Oracle-Led Deal Cuts ByteDance to 19.9%

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury - Publicly framed the TikTok deal as ‘final’ pending leader-level consummation, and emphasized his role securing Chinese approval.

Money Moves • ongoing

Treasury targets 29 Iran “shadow fleet” ships, turning tanker logistics into a sanctions minefield

Secretary of the Treasury - Driving an expanded Iran sanctions enforcement campaign under NSPM-2

Force in Play • ongoing

Washington Keeps Two Quiet Russia Loopholes Open: Japan’s Sakhalin-2 Oil and the Nuclear Fuel Money Pipe

U.S. Treasury Secretary - Reportedly involved in consultations on possible new Russia energy sanctions

Rule Changes • ongoing

US Sanctions Force Lukoil Into a $22 Billion Global Fire Sale

US Secretary of the Treasury - Leads implementation of sanctions and waivers governing Lukoil’s asset sales

Money Moves • ongoing

From Trade Wars to Bailouts: Trump’s Tariffs and the Farm Sector

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury - Key player in tariff strategy and financing of farm aid; recently divested a large soybean farm

Money Moves • ongoing

Scott Bessent’s Farmland Divestiture: Ethics Clash Inside Trump’s Treasury

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury - Under sustained ethics scrutiny; has now divested North Dakota farmland but faces questions about earlier decisions

Money Moves • ongoing

U.S. Regulators Dismantle Post-Crisis Limits on Leveraged Lending

U.S. Treasury Secretary; Chair, Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) - Advocating a deregulatory shift and a reevaluation of FSOC’s post-crisis approach as leveraged-lending guardrails are rolled back

Rule Changes • ongoing