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The Volkov Law Group

Is Your Sanctions Compliance Program Compliant? — A Quick Five-Question Quiz

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Checklists can be handy — by simplifying and focusing on specific issues, a checklist can organize thinking and prioritize tasks. Here are five (5) questions that are fairly simple but revealing as to whether a company’s...more

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The Same Old Song with a Different Meaning — Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance (Part I of IV)

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Sorry to start a four-part series with a reference to music from our long-ago past.  The Four Tops sang the “Same Old Song, with a Different Meaning” (released in 1965). So, how does that relate to third-party risks?  Well,...more

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Nonprofits Operating Abroad: Five Key Compliance Strategies

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With the current state of the world and heightened scrutiny of the nonprofit sector, it is critical that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) with international reach routinely assess the effectiveness of their trade...more

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Risk to Israeli Entities Posed by International Sanctions – What Is the Exposure and What Are the Dangers?

The executive order signed by United States President Joseph Biden in February 2024 states that the violence being committed by Israeli settlers has reached intolerable levels; poses a serious threat to peace, security, and...more

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Person of the Year: The Trade Compliance Officer

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I admit I may be a little late in completing some of my 2022 retrospective postings.  Nevertheless, I have to announce Corruption, Crime & Compliance’s Person of the Year Award.  Although my posting is not done with as much...more

K2 Integrity

[Webinar] Russia Sanctions: 2022 Review and 2023 Outlook - January 18th, 7:00 am ET

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In this webinar, you’ll hear from expert panelists Julia Khersonsky, acting director of the U.S. Department of State’s Export Control and Border Security Bureau (EXBS); Chip Poncy, global head of financial integrity at K2...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

President Biden Signs New Law Requiring U.S. Blockage of All Imports Made Wholly or Partly in Xinjiang, China

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President Biden signed into law on December 23 legislation that will, for the first time, require U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) to detain all imports that are made wholly or partly in the Xinjiang Uyghur...more

K2 Integrity

SPACs and Sanctions: Due Diligence Considerations

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Economic sanctions have been increasingly used by countries and international organizations as a tool of foreign policy and national security. This increase in the use of sanctions, particularly by the U.S. Department of the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

OFAC Releases Advisory on Sanctions Risk Involving Ransomware Payments

In early October, the United States Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory, warning of the potential risk of sanctions to companies and individuals who pay ransomware payments. The...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

OFAC Issues Advisory on Sanctions for Facilitating Ransomware Payments

On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory “to highlight the sanctions risks associated with ransomware payments related to malicious cyber-enabled...more

Jones Day

ISDA Proposals to Minimize Impact of Sanctions on Derivatives Transactions

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The Situation: The increased use of financial sanctions (in particular "sectoral" or targeted sanctions) by the United States and European Union has the potential to cause short-term illiquidity, contagion, and market...more

K2 Integrity

FINCast Ep. 19 - The DPRK Sanctions Program

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In this episode, FIN Principal Daniel Glaser and FIN Vice President David Murray focus on the North Korea Sanctions program. These experts discuss the program's complexities, challenges, and importance in the geopolitical...more

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China Emerging as an Increasing Driver of Global Illicit Finance Risk

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Growing Chinese illicit finance threats, vulnerabilities, and exposure are combining to increase illicit financing risk in the international financial system, judging from a series of recent advisories, sanctions actions,...more

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Sanctioned default? The English High Court considers the effect of foreign illegality on English obligations

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As sanctions ramp up globally, it is increasingly important for commercial parties engaged in cross border transactions to have certainty (i) as promisees (e.g. lenders) as to when their counterparties may legitimately avoid...more

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