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Structured register of government actions in the geoeconomic space — export controls, tariffs, sanctions, FDI screening, subsidies, industrial-policy laws — cross-referenced into the country, minerals, and ETF surface. Charter: docs/IPTM_CHARTER.md.
Severity 1-5 is the qualitative impact rating (1=minor, 5=structural). The bilateral-trade-grounded quant scorer is the next IPTM milestone. RBI (Register Breadth Index) is a complementary structural-breadth indicator from scripts/py/iptm/breadth.py; divergence between RBI and severity is itself informative (high-sev / low-RBI = strategic chokepoint; low-sev / high-RBI = broad but shallow). Every action has at least one primary source URL. Verify-or-don't-file. See also themes, timeline, graph, sankey, map, country exposure, sector exposure, material exposure (+ graph), weekly briefs, portfolio scan, escalation monitor, trans-shipment hubs. Internal triage tools (RSS-poller candidate feed, source-feed health) live under /admin/candidates + /admin/sources. Subscribe via Atom feed (accepts ?country=CN, ?material=lithium, ?issuer=BIS, ?type=export_control, ?etf=SOXX, ?company=NVDA, ?minSeverity=4, ?year=2026, ?q=…) or pull /api/iptm/actions.
On September 10, 2025 FinCEN issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) under 31 USC 5326 requiring money services businesses (MSBs) in designated southwest-border counties and ZIP codes across California, Texas, and (newly added) Arizona to file Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) on cash transactions between $1,000 and $10,000 — well below the BSA's standard $10,000 CTR threshold. The order ran through March 6, 2026 (180 days, the GTO statutory maximum) and was subsequently extended via the March 10, 2026 expanded GTO (FR Doc. 2026-04641) which retained the $1,000 floor and added inland transit hubs (Bernalillo, Doña Ana, San Juan in NM; Maricopa, Pima in AZ). The September 2025 order modified an earlier March 14, 2025 GTO that had used a $200 threshold and covered a narrower TX/CA strip; the September 2025 modification raised the threshold to $1,000 in response to MSB-industry feedback on operational burden, while extending the geography to include Arizona. Filing deadline is extended from the standard 15 days to 30 days.
On March 11, 2025 FinCEN issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) under 31 USC 5326 — published in the Federal Register on March 14, 2025 (FR Doc. 2025-04099) and effective April 14, 2025 — requiring every money services business (MSB) located in 30 designated ZIP codes across seven counties in California (Imperial, San Diego) and Texas (Cameron, El Paso, Hidalgo, Maverick, Webb) to file a Currency Transaction Report (CTR) on cash transactions of more than $200 but not more than $10,000, far below the Bank Secrecy Act's standard $10,000 CTR floor. The order also imposed customer-identification recordkeeping and, per the FinCEN order text, gave covered MSBs thirty (30) days to file CTRs (vs. the standard fifteen). It was framed by Treasury as part of the post-January-2025 cartel-targeting policy stack (Trump Executive Order 14157 designating Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations / SDGTs) and was intended to surface low-value cash flows used by Mexico-based cartels and related criminal actors. The GTO was a 180-day order set to expire September 9, 2025; it was subsequently superseded on September 10, 2025 by a modified GTO that raised the threshold to $1,000 in response to MSB-industry feedback on burden, expanded geography to Arizona, and was itself replaced/expanded again on March 10, 2026.