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New OFAC and FinCEN Frameworks Seek to Modernize U.S. Financial Crime Regulations

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’s Crypto Economy Under Fire in New U.S. Sanctions Crackdown

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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Citibank’s Russian Sanctions Failures Highlight Growing Risks for International Firms

Withstanding the test of time, economic sanctions remain a crucial diplomatic tool used by governments and international bodies to influence foreign behavior, enforce international law, and protect national security without resorting to military action. Since the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the subsequent escalation of sanctions enforcement taken against Russia has become […]

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