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To counter Russia's ongoing aggression in Ukraine, on 12 June 2024, the U.S. announced additional sanctions and export controls intended to “continue to drive up costs for the Russian war machine”. Specifically, these...more
September 26, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury is undertaking actions as part of a coordinated international effort to disrupt Russian cybercrime services. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...more
On June 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury), U.S. Department of State (State), and U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced another round of sanctions and export controls targeting Russia. In this...more
Throughout December, the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom adopted a series of new sanctions packages against Russia that are expansive and multilayered and pose additional compliance challenges. The new...more
The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically focusing on:...more
DOJ Increases Resources To Investigate and Prosecute Sanctions Evasion and Export Control Violations - On March 2, 2023, during a keynote speech at the American Bar Association’s annual White Collar Crime National...more
On February 3, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Brian E. Nelson, met with the Banks Association of Turkey to discuss international sanctions actions against Russia for its war against...more
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the executive branch is mounting what the U.S. Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) calls a “historically unprecedented campaign of sanctions and export controls” aimed at...more
September 30, 2022- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated 14 persons in Russia's military-industrial complex, including two international suppliers, three key leaders of Russia's...more
Explore the data The conflict in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions have had a chilling effect on M&A involving Russian entities, as these assets are now squarely off-limits for US buyers. The Office of Foreign Assets...more
In line with the Biden administration’s declaration last year that anticorruption is a “core United States national security interest,” sanctions evasion enforcement rapidly has become a core priority for the Department of...more
On June 28, 2022, the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a Joint Alert urging financial institutions...more
Federal Agencies- Federal Reserve Board- Speech: Risk in the Crypto Markets- June 3, 2022- Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller gave a speech at the SNB-CIF Conference on Cryptoassets and Financial...more
Federal Agencies- U.S. Department of the Treasury- U.S. Treasury Severs More Networks Providing Support for Putin and Russia's Elites-...more
On May 5, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury published General License No. 31, which authorizes certain intellectual property-related transactions in Russia, including the filing...more
Cryptocurrency's reputation for enabling transactions outside of the traditional financial ecosystem has prompted concerns that it may serve as a tool for Russian actors to evade recently promulgated sanctions against the...more
The Week in Review delivers the impact and analysis for the public, private, and non-profit sectors from our daily reporting of the evolving global sanctions campaign against Russia. ...more
Following Russia’s recognition of breakaway regions in Ukraine and full-scale invasion of the country, authorities in the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, and across the globe imposed a sweeping array of trade...more
In this Issue. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published an alert warning financial institutions of possible efforts to evade U.S.-imposed sanctions on Russia and Belarus; the U.S. Department of the Treasury...more
On February 25 and 28, 2022, the US Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued its fifth and sixth actions against Russia, blocking the assets of President Vladimir Putin and three other high-ranking...more
In response to Russia’s anticipated and then executed invasion of Ukraine, last week the U.S. Department of Treasury ("Treasury") announced two new rounds of economic sanctions against Russian-connected financial institutions...more
As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, the United States and other countries have intensified economic sanctions against the Russian Federation. These sanctions ride on the heels of initial sanctions issued prior to...more
Over the past week, the Russian Federation has taken a number of aggressive steps toward Ukraine in furtherance of its ultimate invasion—steps that were immediately condemned by the international community as a blatant...more
The situation in the Ukraine remains highly fluid and reactions from the United States and allies continue to evolve. This is the first of a series of advisory alerts from Venable in response to the ongoing situation....more