A Treasury Department official has warned that provisions of Florida’s “anti-woke” banking bill–and others like it–may “materially undermine” financial institutions’ compliance with federal anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) laws and U.S. sanctions.

Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass. Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com LinkedIn:...