The ongoing convergence of the world’s financial and physical supply chains has created new regulatory realities. For financial institutions and the supply chains they finance operationalizing while optimizing sanctions and trade control compliance processes and procedures can be challenging. This can be especially true when...

Targeted sanctions, also called “smart sanctions,” have become increasingly popular with foreign policymakers to pressure specific entities or individuals in a targeted nation while minimizing negative impacts on innocent civilians. The main objective of targeted sanctions is to influence the behavior of the targeted individual...

Sanctions compliance officers today are living in tumultuous times. Ask any group of sanctions compliance officers what has been keeping them busy and one response is likely to come up quite often: Sanctions against Russia. While not subject to comprehensive sanctions, Russia has become “the...