Airbnb Payments in US$91,172 OFAC settlement over Cuba sanctions violations

Statistical sampling of ‘Stays’ and ‘Experiences’ (traveller lodging and activities provided by Airbnb hosts), and extrapolation to all transactions Airbnb Payments, Inc, a money services business, processed between 20 September 2015 and 1 March 2020, indicated that 3,464 amounts related to accommodation arranged in Cuba for reasons not authorised by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).