The fight against sanctions evasion has become an increasingly important front in the broader effort to disrupt illicit finance on the global scale. In recent years, the United States government has characterized sanctions evasion and associated illicit financial activity as legitimate threats to our national security interests, with the financial infrastructure used to move sanctioned […]
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The American regulatory landscape is undergoing a period of modernization as federal regulators seek to strike a balance between maintaining effective compliance frameworks to address increasingly complex and evolving financial crime risks while avoiding over-burdening the already thin compliance departments found within domestic financial institutions. In recent weeks, proposed changes brought forth by the U.S. […]
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Iran has spent years building ways to move money around the international financial system in order to circumvent international sanctions over their notorious terrorism financing exploits, nuclear program development, and human rights violations. Unfortunately, the growth in the cryptocurrency space has allowed the embattled nation to bypass these widespread international banking restrictions that previously had […]
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