In recent years, economic sanctions have become an increasingly important U.S. foreign policy tool and the digital asset industry has become a key focus of sanctions regulators and prosecutors.
Described as the "Wild West" by SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, the meteoric rise of digital assets like cryptocurrencies has disrupted the traditional financial ecosystem. The wave of.
On September 21, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published an updated sanctions advisory, providing guidance to companies on sanctions.
The themes coming out of the administration in 2021 have been consistent: greater government scrutiny on corporate conduct, lookout for signs of corruption, and a higher standard of scrutiny on representations that tout ESG values as hallmarks of corporate citizenship.
On Monday, President Biden released the United States Strategy on Countering Corruption, which details how the United States will work “domestically and internationally, with.