Cryptocurrency: Wild West or Wall Street? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 22]
Building on prior relief of sanctions and other restrictive trade measures earlier this year (as described in K2 Integrity alerts dated 15 May and 09 June 2025), on 30 June 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a new...more
President Trump continued his flurry of sanctions actions with the recent revocation of the Syrian sanctions program. On June 30, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14312 “Providing for the Revocation...more
On March 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a final rule extending the recordkeeping requirements under OFAC’s regulations from five years to 10 years. This change...more
On February 20, 2025, the U.S. Departments of State and the Treasury designated eight Latin American drug trafficking cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), in...more
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” This directive instructs the...more
On May 2, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced, pursuant to Executive Order 13224, a joint action with the Republic of Turkey to designate two financial facilitators of Syria-based...more
On January 5, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions pursuant to Executive Order 13224 against a key financial facilitation network of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...more
On March 7, 2022, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert calling on financial institutions to be “vigilant” in guarding against attempts to evade the recent imposition of expanded Russia sanctions....more
A congressional report released on July 29, 2020, by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, exposes how Russian oligarchs looking to evade U.S. sanctions are able to exploit loopholes in the art industry....more
The Treasury Department on October 25, 2019, imposed a ban on correspondent account relationships involving Iranian financial institutions under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act – activities that were already prohibited by...more
OFAC is clearly sending a message about sanctions enforcement and compliance responsibilities. OFAC is aggressively seeking out new targets for enforcement. OFAC continues to focus on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea,...more
Enforcement activity under the Obama administration often made headlines for the eye-popping level of fines, with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations, and economic sanctions...more