home.treasury.gov

home.treasury.gov is the official website of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the federal department that manages federal finances, collects taxes and duties, enforces finance and tax laws, and works to protect the nation's financial systems. Use it when you need official Treasury information, data, press releases, or entry points to Treasury services organized by audience.

Who the Site Serves

The homepage organizes its main content around four audience groups, which is the fastest way to find the section relevant to you:

What You'll Find on the Site

Leadership and mission

The homepage features the Secretary of the Treasury and links to the department's role. As of the site content reviewed, Scott Bessent is identified as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury, sworn in on January 28, 2025.

Press releases and announcements

The site publishes official Treasury press releases, including enforcement actions, sanctions-related announcements, and statements. Examples from the page include FinCEN alerts tied to "Operation Economic Outcast," a statement from the Secretary for the World Bank Development Committee and IMF International Monetary and Financial Committee, and announced enforcement actions against Bank of America.

Treasury data

The Treasury Data Center publishes interest rate statistics on a daily basis, including:

• Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates
• Treasury Par Real Yield Curve Rates
• Treasury Bill Rates
• Treasury Long-Term Rates and Extrapolation Factors
• Treasury Real Long-Term Rate Averages

The homepage displays a Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve (CMT Rates) table with maturities from 1 month to 30 years.

Tools and programs

The site links to tools such as OFAC financial sanctions programs, including sanctions programs, country information, and related resources.

How to Use It

1. Start from your audience section — The Public, Businesses, Financial Institutions, or Government — to reach content written for your situation.
2. Check press releases for official announcements and enforcement news.
3. Go to the Treasury Data Center if you need daily interest rate statistics; the yield curve table is updated on a daily basis according to the site.
4. Use the sanctions tools if you need OFAC program or country information.

What to Keep in Mind

• This is a government information and data site, not a consumer banking portal; the page evidence does not indicate consumer account services or pricing.
• Content reflects official Treasury positions and announcements; verify time-sensitive figures (such as rates) against the current page, since the displayed table carries a specific date.
• The site is in English (en-us), so plan accordingly if you need translated materials.

home.treasury.gov is organized around four audience sections—The Public, Businesses, Financial Institutions, and Government—plus leadership content centered on the Secretary of the Treasury. If you know which group you belong to, start with the matching section heading rather than searching the site; each section groups the content most relevant to that audience.

The Four Audience Sections

The site's main navigation is built around who you are, not around the Treasury's internal bureaus. The table below summarizes what each section is for and when to use it.

Each section works as a grouping layer: it collects the pages, announcements, and resources that matter to that audience so you don't have to sort through content aimed at other groups.

Leadership Content

Leadership is presented separately from the audience sections. The homepage highlights the Secretary of the Treasury—currently Scott Bessent, sworn in as the 79th Secretary on January 28, 2025—with a "Read More" link to the Secretary's page. A separate "Role of the Treasury" link explains the department's mission. If your question is about who leads the department or what it does overall, use these links rather than an audience section.

How to Reach the Right Section

1. Identify your audience group. Decide whether you are acting as a member of the public, a business, a financial institution, or a government entity.
2. Select the matching top-level heading on the homepage navigation.
3. Scan the grouped content in that section for the topic you need, such as a program, filing requirement, or regulatory resource.
4. Check the homepage for cross-cutting items if your topic isn't audience-specific—press releases, interest rate statistics, and sanctions tools are presented at the site level rather than inside one audience section.

When the Audience Sections Aren't the Fastest Route

Some tasks are better served by site-wide features than by an audience section:

• Sanctions and enforcement: The homepage links to OFAC sanctions programs, country information, and related tools under a "Tools" area, and enforcement news appears in press releases.
• Interest rate data: Treasury publishes daily par yield curve rates, bill rates, and long-term rates through its Data Center, reachable from the homepage.
• News and statements: Press releases and Secretary statements are listed on the homepage with a "View all Press Releases" link.

For these, go directly to the tool or data link instead of working through an audience section. For everything else, the audience headings remain the most reliable starting point.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury publishes sanctions material and enforcement news through two distinct channels on home.treasury.gov: a standing Financial Sanctions tool area (OFAC programs, country information, and related resources) and a rolling Press Releases feed where enforcement actions, penalties, and FinCEN alerts are announced. If you need program rules or country-specific sanctions lists, start with the sanctions tool area; if you need to know what the Treasury has recently done to a specific institution or network, browse press releases.

Sanctions programs and country information

The homepage lists Financial Sanctions among its tools, described as covering "OFAC sanctions programs, country information, and Specia..." (the excerpt truncates the final item, typically the Specially Designated Nationals list). This is the structural entry point: sanctions content is organized as a reference tool rather than as news, so it stays stable while individual designations change.

Use this area when you need:

• The list of active OFAC sanctions programs
• Country-specific sanctions information
• The consolidated designation lists that financial institutions screen against

Enforcement actions appear as press releases

Enforcement outcomes are published as news items, not as a separate enforcement database on the homepage. The page evidence shows this pattern clearly:

• October 13, 2026 — "U.S. Treasury Announces Record Enforcement Actions Against Bank of America," described as the third-largest penalty in Treasury history and the largest in OCC history, imposing more than $1.21 [billion, per the truncated excerpt].
• October 15, 2026 — "Operation Economic Outcast Targets Iran's International Financial Networks and Shadow Banking Architecture," an action that also disrupted an Iraqi bank enabling sanctions evasion.

Each release carries the date, the action type, and the dollar figure or target where applicable. The "View all Press Releases" link at the end of the feed is the path to older items.

FinCEN alerts are part of the same communications stream

FinCEN — the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a Treasury bureau — issues alerts that are announced through the same press release channel. The October 15, 2026 release notes that FinCEN "issued an Alert asking financial..." as part of Operation Economic Outcast. For compliance teams, this matters: an alert is advisory guidance to financial institutions, while a penalty release reports an enforcement result. Both arrive through the press feed, so read the release body to tell which one you are looking at.

Where to go for what

Practical notes

The homepage mixes leadership news, tax and IRS rulemaking, and international statements into the same press feed, so filter by date and headline rather than scanning sequentially. Releases are dated and attributed to Washington, which helps when citing them. The excerpt does not describe subscription options or notification services, so plan to check the press page directly for updates rather than assuming an alert mechanism exists.

Treasury interest rate statistics are published in the Treasury Data Center section of home.treasury.gov, which is linked directly from the homepage. The center publishes several rate series on a daily basis, including the Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates, Treasury Par Real Yield Curve Rates, Treasury Bill Rates, Treasury Long-Term Rates and Extrapolation Factors, and Treasury Real Long-Term Rate Averages. The homepage also displays a snapshot table of Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve (CMT) rates, so you can read current values without leaving the front page.

What the Treasury Data Center publishes

The homepage describes the following series as published daily:

The page does not state a specific publication time, historical archive depth, or download format for these series, so check the Data Center itself for those details.

Reading the rates from the homepage

The homepage includes a "Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve CMT Rates" table dated 03/27/2026, with values by maturity:

This table is a snapshot; the full series and supporting data live behind the "View This Data" link that accompanies it.

How to view the full data

1. Open home.treasury.gov.
2. Find the Treasury Data Center section on the homepage, where the interest rate statistics are introduced.
3. Select View This Data next to the Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve rates to open the full dataset.
4. For the other series (real yield curve, bill rates, long-term rates and extrapolation factors, real long-term rate averages), use the same Data Center area to reach each series.

The expected result is a page showing the selected rate series with its daily values; the homepage does not specify whether the full pages offer charts, CSV downloads, or date-range selection, so confirm on the destination page.

Common sticking points

• Confusing the snapshot with the full series. The homepage table shows one date only. If you need history or a different series, follow the data link rather than copying the homepage numbers.
• Assuming all rates are nominal. The real yield curve and real long-term averages are separate series; use them when you need inflation-adjusted figures.
• Treating the rates as fixed. The page states these are published daily, so figures change; note the date attached to any table you use.

For sanctions lists and related tools, the homepage points to a separate Financial Sanctions section rather than the Data Center.