Category: Sanctions
Proliferators & Traffickers in Sub Saharan Africa by FCN - Premium
Proliferators and traffickers include states, companies and individuals involved in trafficking in nuclear, missile, WMD, and military-related commodities, often in contravention of and to circumvent…
Interview with the Sentry’s Joshua White and Megha Swamy
In this Interview The Sentry’s Policy & Analysis Director Joshua White and Deputy Megha Swamy, answer questions posed by Financial Crime News on the work of…
Editor’s Summary – FCN2
When I started this Newsletter, I wanted to offer a digestible collection of both interesting and relevant materials to arm financial crime fighter’s with additional…
Sanctions Compliance by Steve Munro
Complying with economic sanctions requires a comprehensive program of controls and oversight capable of addressing the unprecedented pace of change, geopolitical tensions, conflicting governmental policies,…
Selected Facts and Figures – from 2014
Key Facts and Figures on Financial Crime and contextual comparisons, from “Red Alert” published in 2014 (not yet updated) by John Cusack. Please contact the…
Wolfsberg Annual Forum 2019
This Wolfsberg Annual Forum was held in Thun, Switzerland on 22-24 June, 2019 including 3 days of a public private conversation critiquing, problem solving, information…
Closing the Gap: Guidance for Countering North Korea’s Cryptocurrency Activity in South East Asia by RUSI
The UK Think tank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) have issued a paper that reveals how North Korea can exploit cryptocurrency, particularly in Southeast…
FinCEN Director Speaks at SIFMA AML Conference
FinCEN Director, Ken Blanca’s presented remarks to the SIFMA AML conference in Feb 2019, were of particular interest in that they focussed on regulatory reform…
Sanctions Screening Guidance
The Guidance was published in Jan 2019 and highlights: • whilst sanctions screening is a primary control, it is not foolproof and needs to be…
Top 10 Predictions for 2019
As the only thing certain apparently is uncertainly (unless you count death and taxes) only a fool would predict anything. So foolishly here are my…