Category: News

On 18 October 2021, the US Treasury published its 2021 Sanctions Review. The review concluded that: The “operational architecture” of US sanctions must be adapted and modernised to consider emerging

On October 21, 2021, the FATF added Jordan, Mali, and Turkey to its list of the Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and removed Botswana and Mauritius.   The FATF’s list of High-Risk

On 1st November, In response to Afghanistan’s Taliban takeover in August, OFSI updated its Charity Sector Guidance. The Taliban takeover created a complex situation where people subject to financial sanctions

The European Union amended the criteria for its Democratic Republic of the Congo sanctions regime, adding “planning, directing, sponsoring or participating in attacks… against medical personnel or humanitarian personnel” to

ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States, following its 7 November 2021 summit, announced the imposition of sanctions on Mali (travel ban and asset freeze) on the Malian transition authorities,

The Pandora papers published on October 3, showed that Greame Briggs founder of Asiaciti met with Kirill Androsov who was then the chair of Aeroflot and a former deputy chief

Chinese police in the Southwest region in China arrested 100 suspects after being on the case for two months and solved 332 cases of telecom fraud nationwide. The police cited

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) opened a public consultation(notice) on its Recommendation 24 (Guidance on Transparency and Beneficial Ownership), a piece motivating entities to have a reliable system to

On 19 October, Credit Suisse Group AG, a global financial institution headquartered in Switzerland, and its subsidiary in the United Kingdom Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited (CSSEL), (together, Credit Suisse),

On 21 October, a second round of guides to help financial firms manage climate-related financial risk was published by the Climate Financial Risk Forum (CFRF). The guidance focus on risk