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Several useful hints as to OFSI's enforcement priorities and interpretation of the scope of asset freeze sanctions can be discerned from the HKIWSC case.

A series of London-linked transactions have been reported to the Treasury's sanctions watchdog

Following on from the Fund Finance Friday articles of March 11 and May 13, which looked at the sudden escalation of sanctions measures following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the...

At a time when sanctions are very much in the spotlight, the UK government has proposed amendments to its sanctions regime in order to introduce a ‘strict civil liability’ test for...

When it comes to punishing Russia, expect London to chart a course between Washington and Brussels.

Of trump. >> reporter: but there is now concern that trumps hand with kim jong-un might have gotten weaker because a pullback against iran. >> trumps take on the iranians is something trump will take on board. this will be a dangerous condition where north koreans could challenge us, and we know what north korea can do. they can kill americans. >> reporter: another concern that xi and kim might help push trump back together. they are aware that north korea-china ties could work against america. ...

Pagetry, a new level and a lot of sanctions implementation. >> appreciate your insights. betsy, to you quickly for another major international story, the crisis in venezuela, again, secretary mike pompeo fired a shot over the bow of the maduro administration. take a listen. >> im confident that the venezuelaen people will ensure maduros days are numbered. >> and set fire to trucks attempting to deliver food and supplies from neighboring colombia. meanwhile, vice president pence is traveling to c...

Introverted. he likes to go around and be social. >> but not in foreign countries. >> but getting a lot of international recognition and legacy as a normal leader of a normal country. he now gets to sit down with president of the united states. so i think hes already gained by having this meeting with president trump. i think he is also gained by having all this diplomacy in the last few months because again he looks like a normal leader. he has already weakened a political will for sanctions im...

These developments because theyve been trying to midwife this meeting between the u.s. and north korea. prime minister abe from japan is obviously worried because hes the only one without a summit planned and kim has so far refused to meet with the japanese. kim obviously went to see president xi jinping to make sure he has chinas support and to reduce chinas appetite for sanctions implementation. so we have a variety and a range of feelings and approaches from the region about this u.s./north k...

Sanctions that vladimir putin would care about. the oligarchs are arms of the russian government. they are wealthy people that putin controls. and so when we think about what these sanctions might actually mean, now remember, congress passed bipartisan legislation several months ago that required the department of the treasury to list oligarchs out, and they did not impose sanctions on these oligarchs back in january. they came under a lot of criticism. so what we could be seeing is the next pha...