The Justice Insiders Podcast - The Ever-Expanding Net: Corporate Compliance in an Era of Increasing Trade Sanctions and Restrictions
Episode 328 -- Sanctions Enforcement Risks and Redlines
Corruption, Crime and Compliance: Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance
Episode 324 -- Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance
Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024: Federal Legislative Developments and OFAC Consent Orders — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: Deep Dive into SCG Plastics’ $20 Million Settlement with OFAC to Resolve Violations of Iran Sanctions Program
Episode 319 -- Deep Dive into SCG Plastics' $20 Million Settlement with OFAC for Violations of the Iran Sanctions Program
Wiley's 10 Key Trade Developments: Evolution of Export Controls
Wiley’s Top 10 Trade Developments: Heightened Sanctions and Export Control Enforcement
Corruption, Crime and Compliance: Trade Compliance Trends and Expectations with Gabrielle Griffith
Episode 308 -- Gabrielle Griffith, Director BPE Global, on Trade Compliance
Corruption, Crime and Compliance: DOJ and OFAC Sanctions Enforcement Review for 2023
Episode 307 -- Sanctions Enforcement Review and Predictions for 2024
Episode 302 -- Matt Stankiewicz on DOJ's Massive Criminal Settlement with Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao
Episode 294 -- Catch Up on OFAC Enforcement: 3M and Emigrant Bank
Episode 289 -- Justice, Commerce and Treasury Issue Joint Notice on Voluntary Disclosure
Evaluating Government Sanctions in the Payments Industry - Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
FedNow Is Here! - Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Look at the Treasury Department’s April 2023 Report on Decentralized Finance or “DeFi”
Corruption, Crime, & Compliance - Cryptocurrency and Sanctions Compliance with Matt Stankiewicz
In line with Group of Seven (G7) efforts to disrupt the Russian military-industrial base’s reliance on foreign IT systems, in June 2024 the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of the Treasury jointly issued new...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) within the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a Final Determination on June 20, 2024, pursuant to Executive...more
OFAC has been busy and not so busy — what do I mean? OFAC is administering a complex set of coordinated sanctions against Russia, in close coordination with the EU and the UK....more
The Biden Administration’s recent expansion of sanctions and export controls to counter Russian aggression will impact non-U.S. financial institutions and increase compliance risks for the business software sector and other...more
On June 12, 2024, the United States took several hard-hitting sanctions- and export control-related actions intended to intensify pressure on the Russian government and hamper Russia’s ability to continue to support its war...more
On the eve of the 2024 Group of Seven (G7) Leaders’ Summit, the United States imposed new sanctions and export control measures against Russia further targeting sanctions evaders and, for the first time, the Russian...more
Over the last several months, companies have become entangled in an increasingly complex web of new and expanded sanctions and export control restrictions related to Russia in response to its war on Ukraine. The current...more
It’s the call you hope you never get. Your company has been hit with a ransomware attack. Your systems are offline. Your customer data was stolen by an unknown threat actor who is threatening to leak it. You have lots of...more
The New York State Department of Financial Services recently announced new guidance addressing ransomware attacks, and highlighting cybersecurity measures to significantly reduce the risk of an attack. The guidance comes as...more
As we previously wrote in our OFAC 2020 Year in Review, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) saw a drop in enforcement activity in 2020, likely due to the massive year it had in 2019 and...more
Phishing FINRA - October is cyber-security awareness month, so it’s only appropriate that FINRA started it with another Regulatory Notice warning member firms to beware of a false-survey phishing scheme. The Notice warns...more
This is the sixth in our start-of-year series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. Our previous entry discussed enforcement by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in...more
Under this new evaluation process, Commerce can prohibit companies from engaging in a wide variety of transactions and order them to cease using the information technology or telecommunication system in question even if it is...more
The term “internal controls” is a loaded one – it morphs in various ways depending on the context. Sometimes it is a shorthand for financial accounting controls; other times it encompasses a company’s compliance controls...more
On February 2, 2017, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Cyber-related General License (GL) 1, a general license that authorizes certain transactions with Russia’s Federal...more
On September 21, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amended their respective Cuba regulations to...more