Sanctions

AML / KYC

Crime Becoming Smaller Part of Crypto Ecosystem: Report

By Manesh Samtani | 17/01/2022

Chainalysis estimates that illicit wallet addresses received $14bn throughout 2021, but this represented just 0.15% of total transaction volumes in crypto during the year.

AML / KYC

OFAC Fines HK Unit of Japanese Conglomerate Sojitz

By Editors | 13/01/2022

Trading in Iran-origin goods was carried out without the knowledge of senior management by employees who omitted information from documentation.

AML / KYC

DPRK Sanctions Evasion Not Being Captured by Regulation

By Manesh Samtani | 07/01/2022

Gatekeeper professions play an important role in facilitating North Korean sanctions evasion, RUSI says in a new paper.

AML / KYC

US Sanctions Five Chinese Officials, China Reciprocates

By Editors | 04/01/2022

Five already-sanctioned Chinese officials were named in the US State Department’s latest Hong Kong Autonomy Act Report submitted to Congress.

Press Release

Regulation Asia: Top Ten Contributed Articles for 2021

By Editors | 23/12/2021

This list presents the most-read contributed articles published by Regulation Asia in 2020, based on aggregated user traffic analytics.

AML / KYC

US Treasury Imposes Sanctions on Eight Chinese Tech Firms

By Editors | 17/12/2021

Trade restrictions have also been imposed on 34 entities for alleged human rights violations and technology use that ‘undermines US national security’.

AML / KYC

Parallel Myanmar Government Recognises Tether as Official Currency

By Editors | 14/12/2021

The pro-democracy National Unity Government has reportedly begun using Tether as a proxy for the US dollar to raise funds for a campaign to topple the military regime.

Securities / Derivatives

US Sanctions Force Chinese AI Firm to Postpone HK IPO

By Manesh Samtani | 13/12/2021

The US Treasury placed Chinese AI firm SenseTime on an investment blacklist just as the company was preparing to list in Hong Kong.

AML / KYC

US Treasury Targets Human Trafficking in Updated Action Plan

By Mark Johnston | 12/12/2021

Treasury will leverage its AML expertise to augment human trafficking investigations, and develop advisories to alert FIs to potential red flags.