Sanctions Notes

Proposed reforms to Australia’s sanctions regime to target corruption, cyber-crime, human rights violations

UK, US and Canada impose additional sanctions on Belarus

OFAC settlement with online payment-services company highlights key OFAC expectations in sanctions compliance programs

OFAC Reaches Settlement with Alfa Laval Subsidiaries Over Iran Referral

Biden Administration Adds 34 Entities to BIS Entity List

OFAC Issues Sanctions in Response to Belarus’s Forced Diversion of a Ryanair Flight

Jonathan Cross recently featured in Anti-Corruption Report

Jonathan Cross recently published "Managing Sanctions Risk Up and Down the Supply Chain" in the Anti-Corruption Report. The article looks at the …

New Commission opinion on EU sanctions and “making available”: the impact of a non-sanctioned company and its subsidiaries of having a Designated Person director

On 8 June 2021, the European Commission published an opinion on Article 2(2) of Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 of 17 March …

President Biden Revokes TikTok and WeChat Bans

China enacts Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law

On 10 June 2021, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC enacted the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law (AFSL), which took effect on …

Biden Administration Replaces "Communist Chinese Military Company" Sanctions with "Chinese Military-Industrial Complex" Sanctions

US Treasury publishes new Myanmar sanctions regulations