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EU expanded sanctions against Iran and Belarus, and conclusions in relation to Libya and Syria, update on U.S. sanctions on Iran

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Belarus, European Union, Iran, Libya, Syria, USA
  • -
  • October 12 2011

Today, the EU has added 29 persons to the list of those targeted by an asset freeze and a visa ban because of their involvement in human rights violations in Iran

Standard Chartered Bank settles sanctions allegations with New York regulators

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 24 2012

On August 14, 2012, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered plc, a British Bank, announced that it had reached a $340 million settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS

Wire stripping: what is old is new again

  • Miller Canfield PLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 28 2013

Recently, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) was in the news again for stripping original wire details so that payments would go undetected by the U.S

United Nations, European Union, and the United States ease economic sanctions against Libya

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • European Union, Libya, USA
  • -
  • September 19 2011

On Friday 16 September 2011, the United Nations (UN) Security Council adopted Regulation 2009 (2011), which paves the way for further lifting of economic sanctions against Libya, most notably by removing the Libyan National Oil Corporation and Zuietina Oil Company from the sanctions list

ING agrees to colossal settlement for U.S. sanctions violations

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 15 2012

In a recent deferred prosecution agreement with the United States government and Manhattan’s District Attorney’s Office, ING Bank (“ING”) agreed to pay a record-breaking fine of $619 million for violations of the U.S. sanctions regime and the accompanying fraud that enabled the misconduct

Conflicts between German prohibitions of boycott measures and US anti-terrorism law

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • European Union, Germany, USA
  • -
  • November 20 2012

The European financing market is increasingly faced with the conflict between, on one hand, US anti-terrorism laws imposing obligatory sanctions in line with US foreign policy and, on the other hand, German foreign trade laws which prohibit boycott measures

Credit Suisse agrees to US$536 million settlement over sanctions violations

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 26 2010

On December 16, 2009, OFAC, the Department of Justice, and the New York State District Attorney's Office announced that Credit Suisse AG had settled allegations by state and federal agencies that it intentionally structured transactions in order to allow Iranian, Libyan, Sudanese and other clients subject to US sanctions to access the US financial system

Management consultant arrested and charged with violating Iran embargo

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 26 2010

On January 8, 2010, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Mahmoud Reza Banki after an indictment charging him with violating the US sanctions on Iran and operating an unlicensed money transfer business between the United States and Iran

Obama administration imposes new round of sanctions on Iran

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • November 22 2011

On November 21, 2011, the Obama Administration released a package of new sanctions on Iran

OFAC issues implementing regulations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 17 2012

On January 12th, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") issued regulations implementing Executive Order 13581 of July 24, 2011 ("Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations"

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