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22 December 2014

EU introduces new asset freezing measures against Yemen

On 19 December, the EU published Council Decision 2014/932/CFSP and Regulation 1352/2014 in relation to the situation in Yemen. The measures came into …

18 March 2014

Ukraine – EU and US impose asset freeze and travel ban on Ukrainian and Russian individuals

Following the weekend's Crimea referendum, the EU and US have taken further steps (building on those outlined in our previous briefing) to impose …

07 March 2014

Sanctions Update: Ukraine

Ukraine – EU imposes asset freeze on members of former government and issues a statement in relation to Russia; US introduces Executive Order permitting …

24 January 2014

Iran sanctions: Implementation of the Geneva Agreement

In November 2013, the P5+1 reached agreement on a Joint Plan of Action (JPoA) to suspend certain sanctions in exchange for Iran rolling back aspects of …

01 December 2013

Anti-money laundering and anti-bribery systems and controls at asset management firms: FCA thematic review

In October 2013, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the much-anticipated report of its thematic review into anti-money laundering (AML) and …

26 November 2013

Geneva Agreement - Temporary relaxation of Iran sanctions announced

In the early hours of 24 November, the P5+1 (the UK, US, Germany, France, Russia and China, facilitated by the EU) announced that they had reached a set …

02 October 2013

SFO brings first Bribery Act charges

The Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") had its first day in court in a Bribery Act prosecution on 24 September 2013, with three of four defendants connected …

09 August 2013

Recent Sanctions Developments: EU relaxes certain Syrian sanctions and amends measures relating to North Korea, Iran and Tunisia; US relaxes Myanmar sanctions

The EU has recently published a new Regulation (Regulation 697/2013 of 22 July 2013 ("Regulation 697/2013")) which amends Regulation 36/2012, the key …

09 May 2013

UK: Myanmar (Burma) sanctions are lifted

As expected, the UK Government yesterday revoked the Burma/Myanmar (Financial Restrictions) Regulations 2009.  These regulations contained criminal …

30 April 2013

New EU Directive: Reporting by Extractive Companies on Government Payments

The European Parliament and Council of Ministers have agreed the final form of the new EU rules for the disclosure, on a project by project basis, of …

26 April 2013

EU/UK: Recent sanctions developments concerning Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Syria and Libya

Daniel Hudson, Karen Anderson Jeremy Sher and Richard Wright comment on recent developments concerning the EU sanctions regimes applying to Myanmar …

05 April 2013

Zimbabwe: a further relaxation of the EU financial sanctions regime

In our earlier post we commented on the EU's first step towards easing its sanctions regime in relation to Zimbabwe: with effect from 21 February …