Uphold HQ, a California-based money services company, will pay $72,230 to settle charges levied by the Treasury Departmentโ€™s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that it processed sanctioned transactions for persons in Iran and Cuba and government employees in Venezuela.

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