regulatory bodies like OFAC are placing greater emphasis on ensuring that financial institutions uphold sanctions laws. This ...
The alleged wrongdoing didn’t end there—payments related to the sale were reportedly routed through U.S. financial institutions, further deepening the violation. OFAC claims that Aiotec’s ...
Throughout 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") published 12 enforcement actions regarding ...
OFAC’s alert warned foreign financial institutions that joining SPFS may result in their designation under E.O. 14024 for operating within the Russian Federation’s financial services sector.
The financial landscape may seem like a battlefield ... monitoring to identify transfers related to child exploitation. In 2023, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, sanctioned a ...
“Our entire wire process has been enhanced as we are able to process wires faster and more efficiently – while complying with OFAC,” said Melanie Main ... the most labor-intensive processes for ...
The Office of Foreign Assets Control fined a Miami-based real estate firm and its owner more than $1 million after the agency said they helped two sanctioned Russian oligarchs transfer their luxury ...