Mar 15, 2023 Geopolitics, uncertainty, and a fracturing world order are our reality By Simon Freakley Geopolitical tensions occupy the CEO and Board agendas to a degree I have not witnessed in my career, and the prospect of them...
Jan 18, 2023 2022: A review of foreign sanctions and export control developments involving China By Colum Bancroft Jiayan Xu Cliff Lam Kalu Chen +1 more... Show less In the world of sanctions compliance, the main focus of 2022 was the Russia-Ukraine war. G7 policy makers continue demonstrating a strong...
Jan 21, 2022 2021: A review of foreign sanctions and export control developments involving China By Cliff Lam Jiayan Xu Shiying Zhou 2021 saw enduring trade tensions between the U.S. and China. Under the first year of the Biden administration, the U.S. continued to take...
Nov 26, 2021 China’s Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law: What does it mean for companies? By Cliff Lam Jiayan Xu In response to the extraterritorial reach of the U.S. sanctions laws, China’s Ministry of Commerce promulgated the "Regulations on the...
Oct 19, 2021 Virtual currency industry is called to build a risk-based sanctions compliance program By Jiayan Xu On October 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) published a “Sanctions Compliance...
May 28, 2021 While the cat's away...... By Edward Boyle Assessing risk in a dynamic environment Risks are always heightened during times of significant change. Given the amount of disruption...
Nov 11, 2020 There's not a finish line when it comes to managing financial crime risk By Tom Scampion AML and sanctions risks continually change and FIs need to design programmes accordingly. Financial Crime will remain a focus of all...
Apr 03, 2020 Will Covid-19 change the way we think about the impact of economic sanctions? By Tom Scampion The debates around the effectiveness of sanctions are well rehearsed but the humanitarian impact in countries such as Iran causes us to...