Key points: From 22 February to 22 October 2022 £18.39 billion in frozen funds were reported to OFSI as being held by on behalf of people designated on the UK’s
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and US departments of treasury and state announced in November 2022 the endorsement of the ‘South Africa Just Energy Transition Partnership Investment Plan’ at Cop
As part of its Final Report, the Panell recommended that the Security Council expand the listing criteria for UN Somalia sanctions to include “planning, directing, supporting, or committing acts involving
High-risk jurisdictions are counties that have significant strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing of proliferation. For all countries identified as high-risk, the FATF
Through its nine FATF-Style Regional Bodies (FSRBs), the FATF brings together a global network of 205 jurisdictions that have each committed at the highest political level, to implementing the FATF
The watchdog is calling for comments to its updated Guidance paper to Recommendation 24 on the transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons. The draft text of the Guidance is
On October 21, 2022, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) removed Nicaragua and Pakistan from its list of Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and added the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
The EU has updated its list of dual-use items that are subject to export controls in line with amendments to international non-proliferation regimes and export control arrangements. For more information
The Department of State has issued the 2020 Country Reports on Terrorism (CRT), which provides a detailed look at the counter-terrorism environment in 2020 which is a fulfilment of an
Following the peaceful transfer of power in Burundi after their elections in May last year, the UK has now amended its Burundi sanctions regime. The new sanctions regime can be
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