All FinCrime Focus - Sanctions On-Demand articles
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Move Towards Sanctions for Cyber, Corruption, Election Fraud, Climate Control and Human Rights: What to expect in 2022 and Beyond?
Companies often resist government mandates or say that no single set of regulations can capture the challenge of locking down different kinds of computer networks. This session takes a look at what companies can and should be doing in 2022.
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Unpacking US Finance Regulatory Developments: Cryptocurrency, CBDC, and Sanctions
David Rowe-Francis, Founder of Praxis Compliance Consultants talks to Amanda Wick, former FinCEN and DOJ attorney about the impact of President Biden’s recent executive order on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and the challenges of regulation and enforcement.
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The FATF’s Revised Recommendations and Proliferation Financing Targeted Financial Sanctions: Bridging the Gap between a Rules-Based Standard and a Risk-Based Approach
Striking the balance between the rules-based standard and the risk based-approach creates new requirements for obliged entities and beyond.
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A Look at the Development of new Russian and Belarusian Sanctions Regimes with an emphasis on the Development of Countermeasures and the use of Crypto in Light of the Current Situation in Ukraine
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) observed that economic growth “virtually stopped when sanctions and lower oil prices hit in 2014. This session takes a deep dive into the effect of the current sanctions and looks at how effective have they really been?
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Sanctions and Counter-Sanctions: Limits, scenarios, and impact of the use of Cryptocurrencies in the enforcement of both. Russia-Ukraine case
In the presentation we are going to describe how we should no longer only be concerned about Sanctions lists, but also about measures against these, to the extent that these countermeasures can be positive (inclusion in other lists) or negative (blocking statutes). In addition to that, it will also be addressed how enforcement is possible when payments are made through Crypto.