For years, sanctions against long-time international opponents of the U.S.; a group including Iran, Russia, and North Korea, amongst others have focused heavily on restricting weapons development and illicit trade, while targeting the very financial networks which continue to provide a lifeline to these countries in wake of these stringent penalties. With respect to North […]
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For years, the United States and its international counterparts have struggled to answer one of the more fundamental questions surrounding cryptocurrencies: Who is responsible for regulating the digital asset markets? This ongoing lack of a clear regulatory jurisdiction between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); the two […]
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Over the better part of the past two decades, anti-money laundering (AML) enforcement has continued to intensify across the globe. Regulators have moved away from viewing compliance failures as simply administrative shortcomings and increasingly treat them as systemic threats to national security given their capability to facilitate organized crime, sanctions evasion, corruption, terrorist financing, and […]
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