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The SEC proposed amendments to agency rules governing beneficial ownership reporting. Also, FINRA covered twenty-one different topics related to a firm's core compliance responsibilities. FINRA added five new topics since last year's report.

2021 was a year of transition in the United States and for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). OFAC’s year…

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In a final rule issued last week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has amended and reissued the Somalia Sanctions Regulations, which can be found in 31 C.F.R. Part 551. The final rule incorporates Executive Order 13536, (“Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Somalia”) and Executive Order 13620 (“Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency W...

December 21, 2020 WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Vice President of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court of Justice, Marvin Ramiro Aguilar Garcia; a Deputy of the National Assembly, Walmaro Antonio Gutierrez Mercado; and a Chief of the Nicaraguan National Police in Leon, Fidel De Jesus Dominguez Alvarez, in an effort to target government officials that continue to assist the Ortega regime’s effort to undermine Nicara...