Catching up on blogging, that is. Sorry for the delay, but I was down with COVID until yesterday … and spent all day catching up on my day job – and managing my youngest daughter’s positive COVID case (much more severe than mine). But, back on the horse…. This will […]
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Mr. Watchlist caught COVID late last week, so he’s listening to his body and taking it easy. The last doses of paxlovid are due tomorrow, so hopefully he can start catching up on the relatively few regulatory releases either then or on Wednesday….
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Actually, for Mrs. Watchlist… who was one of the folks axed by Salesforce on Tuesday. She managed Customer Centric Engineering for a number of industries, including financial services and the non-profit sector. Here’s her LinkedIn profile (her actual name is Judi). She’s actually interested in going to back to her […]
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10 years ago today, Mr. Watchlist published his very first blog post here. I thank all of you for following along with me, through multiple blog editors, a few design changes and experiments over the years, and a whole lot of financial crime news. Please don’t forget that I have […]
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Bad day to have Election Day, huh? Yeah, I saw the OFAC notice… but posting from the polling place is a no-no. I promise to catch up today-ish.
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There are lots of resource pages… such as the Enforcement Actions page (which I just updated). You can find them all under the Menu “hamburger” at the top left of the page. And, if there are things you think are missing, out of date, or that I ought to add […]
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Mr. Watchlist’s on vacation, celebrating 29 lovely years with Mrs. W, so I’m running a little behind on stuff. As I get around to it, I will try to catch up somewhat during the week, but chances it will really have to wait until 17th (hopefully, after the Bird beat […]
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Reminder for the Annual Report of Blocked Property 09/19/2022 Body On July 1, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a recent actions notice, reminding holders of property blocked pursuant to OFAC sanctions regulations published in Chapter V of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) […]
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Financial sanctions reporting obligations Reporting obligations measures in The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 and The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2022 have taken effect. These regulations extend the definition of ‘relevant firms’ that have financial sanctions reporting obligations to cryptoasset exchange providers and custodian wallet providers. The expanded definition […]
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Hi, Captain Obvious: EU renews Russia sanctions for 6 more months OFSI adds 5, corrects 1 under Syrian sanctions OFSI adds 42 to Russia sanctions, corrects 1 Guilty Pleas for frauds and money laundering for 2 Ukrainians HKMA Website Alert: Union Bancaire Privée, UBP So, you might wonder why these […]
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