The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) certifies, through its Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), the tin, tantalum, tungsten, gold and battery-mineral smelters used across electronics, medical device and auto manufacturing supply chains. Global buyers rely on that certification to document forced-labor-free supply chains. On 5 August 2026, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) designated the RBA as a target of retaliatory countermeasures under Beijing's Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law (AFSL).
Tether Holdings underpins the USDT stablecoin, which settles trades around the clock across global exchanges. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) estimates the company's own value at roughly USD200 billion, making it one of the most valuable private companies on earth. In early 2025 it relocated its base from the British Virgin Islands to El Salvador. But no one seems to know who owns the company.
On 7 August 2026, the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated eleven companies and five individuals it says built and ran a currency network for Iran's regime.
Evidencity updates its February 2026 Taxonomy of Transparency report with a closer look at Forced Labor in Developing Nations research.
A Ghanaian government economic assessment credits the country's new gold board with pulling 39.4 tonnes of previously smuggled gold into formal export channels in 2025.
New human rights data published on 22 July 2026 name Zijin Mining and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, alongside Tsingshan Group, among 10 Chinese firms that account for nearly two-thirds of all documented abuse allegations against Chinese-backed mineral projects worldwide since 2021.
A customs-platform outage put USD1.1 billion in cobalt exports at risk in the country that supplies 70% of the world's cobalt. The failure was administrative, arriving six weeks after Evidencity flagged that every tonne of US cobalt still runs through a single foreign-controlled chokepoint.
In April 2025, Evidencity's Project Tantalus dataset flagged a Rwandan mining company as a suspected handler of minerals smuggled out of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Fourteen months later, the US Treasury sanctioned it.
A recent Withhold Release Order (WRO) against copper and copper products manufactured by Serbia Zijin Copper D.O.O. surfaced on a clean country risk screen, and no sanctions exposure.
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