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10 Jul 2018, 3:57 am by Hedge Fund Lawyer
Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) FAQs about compliance and sanctions with regard to illicit digital currency activities. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 2:44 am by Kevin LaCroix
  Even when a law firm becomes satisfied by the process, the law firm must establish rigid internal controls so that the cryptocurrency is not somehow stolen or wrongfully depleted by hackers or insiders. [read post]
17 May 2018, 1:26 pm by Madeline Henshaw-Greene
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Valiollah Seif, the governor of Iran’s Central Bank, as well as the bank’s assistant director of the international department, Ali Tarzali, and subjected them to sanctions that prohibit them from “opening or maintaining in the United States of a correspondent account…by a foreign financial institution” that is known to serve as a vessel for financial support… [read post]
17 May 2018, 1:26 pm by Madeline Henshaw-Greene
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Valiollah Seif, the governor of Iran’s Central Bank, as well as the bank’s assistant director of the international department, Ali Tarzali, and subjected them to sanctions that prohibit them from “opening or maintaining in the United States of a correspondent account…by a foreign financial institution” that is known to serve as a vessel for financial support… [read post]
15 May 2018, 11:09 am by Hayley Evans
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control named the central bank governor, Valiollah Seif, and the central bank’s assistant director of the international department, Ali Tarzali, “specially designated global terrorists” for allegedly assisting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force to support Lebanese Hezbollah’s militia. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 4:48 pm by Kevin LaCroix
., (Centra) a purported financial services start-up, with orchestrating a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO), a term that is meant to describe the offer and sale of digital assets issued and distributed on a blockchain, that raised more than $32 million from thousands of investors. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 6:00 am by Ed Stein
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) notes that it has issued licenses designed to allow persons doing business with designated entities like EN+ a limited amount of time to wind down their operations or divest assets. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 9:28 am by Bruce Zagaris
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they own or control, 17 senior Russian government officials, and a state-owned Russian weapons trading company and its subsidiary, a Russian bank.[1] Simultaneously with the action, OFAC issued two general licenses (General Licenses 12[2] and 13[3] as well as related FAQs)[4] to minimize immediate disruptions to U.S.… [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 9:28 am by Bruce Zagaris
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they own or control, 17 senior Russian government officials, and a state-owned Russian weapons trading company and its subsidiary, a Russian bank.[1] Simultaneously with the action, OFAC issued two general licenses (General Licenses 12[2] and 13[3] as well as related FAQs)[4] to minimize immediate disruptions to U.S.… [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 7:23 am by Thomas Schober
Third, within the Department of Treasury is the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) that administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 7:23 am by Thomas Schober
Third, within the Department of Treasury is the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) that administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 8:15 am by Doug Cornelius
The EO implements last year’s Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (the Global Magnitsky Act), which authorized the president to impose sanctions against human rights abusers and those who facilitate government corruption.[1] The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which will administer the EO, also added 15 individuals and 37 entities to its Specially Designated Nationals and… [read post]
14 Nov 2017, 3:27 am by Kevin LaCroix
John Reed Stark  As I noted in a recent post (here), the business pages these days are full of headlines about Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 3:44 pm
Department of the Treasury Treasury, Commerce, and State Implement Changes to the CubaSanctions RulesAmendments Implement President Trump’s June 2017 National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) Strengthening the Policy of the United States Toward Cuba WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of… [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 6:00 am by Paul Rosenzweig
 Typically the commercial agencies (the Treasury Department, which chairs the committee, joined by the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 6:05 am by Matthew D. Lee
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami for playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 12:00 pm by Ron Cheng
To date, these are the only entities and individuals so designated under the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN) under the “CYBER” program of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 7:30 am by Ed Stein
” This language reflects the Senate’s insistence on congressional control over the lifting of sanctions. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 8:06 am by Ed Stein
(The Treasury Department briefly discussed this model of sanctions in footnote 22 of some recent Iran guidance.) [read post]