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Yemen, One of the Last Sanctions-Related Actions of the Trump Administration
USA - January 21 2021 On January 19, as one of the last sanctions-related actions of the Trump Administration, the U.S. Department of State designated Ansarallah as a…
Commerce Identifies Five Countries and One Individual as “Foreign Adversaries”
USA - January 19 2021 On January 14, 2020 the Trump administration issued an interim rule identifying several countries and one individual as “foreign adversaries” under E…
Congress Passes Corporate Transparency Act Requiring Small Businesses to Report Beneficial Ownership Information
USA - December 21 2020 On December 11, 2020, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA), the U.S. Senate passed the Corporate…
OFAC Recent Actions and Updates
Cuba, Iran, USA - November 6 2020 In the lead up to the 2020 Presidential election, the Trump Administration has been active in the sanctions space, implementing changes that may…
FinCEN Issues First-of-its-kind $60 Million Penalty Against Operator of Bitcoin ‘Mixers’
USA - October 29 2020 On October 19, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) imposed a $60,000,000 civil penalty against Larry Dean Harmon, the founder and…
Recent OFAC Settlement Highlights the Need for Post-Acquisition Sanctions Compliance Controls
Iran, USA - September 25 2020 On September 24, 2020, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that California-based Keysight Technologies…
Trump Administration Issues Further Restrictions on Cuba
Cuba, USA - September 24 2020 Effective September 24, 2020, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is amending the Cuban Assets Control…
Treasury Issues Final Regulation Revising Mandatory CFIUS Declaration Requirement for Certain Critical Technology Transactions
USA - September 15 2020 The Department of the Treasury has issued final regulations that revise the requirement for filing a mandatory declaration with the Committee on…
President Trump Accepts CFIUS’s Recommendation - Orders TikTok’s Chinese Owner to Divest
China, USA - August 18 2020 On August 14, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) formally ordering ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the video-sharing app TikTok, to…
U.S. Expands Sanctions Against Hong Kong Officials, Including Chief Executive Carrie Lam; White House Issues Executive Orders Targeting WeChat and TikTok
Hong Kong, USA - August 7 2020 On August 7, 2020, the United States Department of the Treasury imposed new sanctions on eleven officials said to be “undermining Hong Kong’s…
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