UniCredit Group Banks will pay total financial penalties of approximately $1.3 billion for processing hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of an entity designated as a weapons of mass destruction proliferator and other Iranian entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions, the Department of Justice announced.
Sanctions
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Standard Chartered Bank to pay $1.1B for sanctions violations
Standard Chartered Bank, a U.K.-based financial institution, will pay a total of $1.1 billion in a global settlement for sanctions violations.
Posted inRisk Management
Descartes, Kharon partner on sanctions risk intelligence
Software as a service (SaaS) solutions provider Descartes Systems Group has integrated research company Kharon’s sanctions ownership data into its screening solution.
Posted inAccounting & Auditing
New, tough regulator to oversee U.K. audit
The U.K. Financial Reporting Council will soon be replaced by a new regulator acting on recommendations from Sir John Kingman of the London Stock Exchange. The government hopes to ensure the United Kingdom going forward has “a world-class audit and accounting regulator.”
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Huawei sues U.S. gov. for ‘unconstitutional sales restrictions’
Controversial tech giant Huawei has filed a complaint in a U.S. federal court that challenges the constitutionality of government restrictions on its products.
Posted inEurope
E3 moves to circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran
The E3 has set up a special trade channel designed to allow companies in the European Union to circumvent U.S. sanctions in an effort to continue humanitarian trade with Iran.
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New system opens up EU business trade with Iran
The United Kingdom, Germany, and France have created a new payments system to allow European businesses to trade with Iran without falling foul of U.S. sanctions.
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U.S. Treasury sanctions Petroleos de Venezuela
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela under Executive Order 13850 for operating in the oil sector of the Venezuelan economy.
Posted inBoards & Shareholders
Treasury lifts sanctions on Rusal, En+, ESE
The U.S. Department of Treasury announced that it has lifted sanctions on three companies controlled by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska: power company EuroSibEnergo, aluminum producer UC Rusal, and Rusal’s parent company, En+ Group. Following this news, En+ Group announced an overhaul of its board of directors.
