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2 Nov 2019, 10:49 am by Chris Castle
The company said in the filing that it made the self-disclosure in May to the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces U.S. sanctions, and the self-disclosure is under review by the agency… [Cloudflare] also disclosed that it may have violated U.S. export control regulations and has submitted self-disclosures to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security as well as to the Census Bureau… [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 7:00 am by Race to the Bottom
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued guidance on cryptocurrencies, sending a clear message that they are no longer a “fringe technology that offers shelter from government sanctions. [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 1:10 pm by Alexandra Haris
Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) got involved by identifying Peralta and his organization as “significant narcotics traffickers” pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (the “Kingpin Act”). [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 1:10 pm by Alexandra Haris
Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) got involved by identifying Peralta and his organization as “significant narcotics traffickers” pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (the “Kingpin Act”). [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 4:30 pm by Kevin LaCroix
There is no central issuer of bitcoins, nor a Federal Reserve of Bitcoins monitoring and tracking transactions or controlling their value. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 7:56 am by Russell Spivak, Benjamin Wittes
The Russian entities in question are behaving exactly as one would expect them to under the law, and to the extent they are ultimately Kremlin controlled, the Kremlin is doing so too. [read post]
5 Jun 2019, 6:00 am by Hilary Hurd, Nathaniel Sobel
The New York Times reported that State Department officials asked Pompeo to delay the designation on the theory that it would have unintended consequences on other foreign partners. [read post]
29 May 2019, 1:03 pm by Sarah Aberg and Bochan Kim
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Controls (“OFAC”) both issued guidance regarding their expectations for corporate compliance programs. [read post]
29 May 2019, 5:54 am
Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued guidance entitled “A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments” (the “Framework”), that strongly encourages companies to “develop, implement, and routinely update” a risk-based sanctions compliance programs (“SCPs”). [read post]
14 May 2019, 6:08 am by Tyler Cullis, Amir Handjani
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the agency in charge of administering most U.S. sanctions targeting Iran, “[T]he [U.S.] maintains broad authorizations and exceptions under U.S. sanctions that allow for the sale of agricultural commodities, food, medicine, and medical devices to Iran. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 2:01 pm by Kathleen Scott (US)
On April 17, 2019, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it had designated Banco Central de Venezuela (Banco Central), the country’s Central Bank, as subject to U.S. economic sanctions. [read post]
16 Mar 2019, 4:47 am by Lev Sugarman
And Joshua White made the case for an increase in staff at the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 12:40 pm by Stewart Baker
Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions compliance risks for cryptocurrency companies. [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 3:16 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  Per the Ohio Department of Treasury’s website, paying taxes in bitcoin en [read post]
Over the past five years, non-US companies have had billions of dollars in civil and criminal fines and penalties levied against them by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) for US sanctions violations. [read post]
5 Aug 2018, 7:00 am by Molly K. McKew
The sanctions bill also includes a provision to prevent NATO withdrawal that draws strongly from the Kaine bill (though there is an argument to be made for keeping this separate from, and potentially more durable than, a sanctions bill), and it requires a report from the Director of National Intelligence on Putin’s wealth and assets—a gesture which will make Putin himself quite unhappy. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 12:39 pm by Stephanie Zable
FIRRMA centralizes certain CFIUS operations in the Treasury Department, creating two new Senate-confirmed positions in the department responsible for overseeing CFIUS operations. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 1:52 pm by Ed Stein
As the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has explained, blocking is tantamount to freezing without seizing: Another word for [blocking] is "freezing. [read post]