The multiple violations, all of which involved a single American citizen living in Iran, took place from 2012 to 2015. However, OFAC has assessed “no monetary penalty” for those ITSR violations, according to a statement from the Treasury office. According to OFAC, between the beginning of 2012 and September 2015, SSBT “processed at least 45… Read More >>
UniCredit Group Settles Sanctions Cases for $1.3 Billion
The UniCredit Group has reached a combined $1.3 billion settlement with the federal and New York State governments, the U.S. Department of the Treasury reports. And as part of that overall settlement, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) also reports that “three separate agreements totaling $611 million” have been reached with three… Read More >>
Firms Need Multi-Disciplinary & Complex IT Responses to Sanctions
World events are hitting home for financial services firms as the Obama and Trump administrations have been steadily issuing a growing list of complex economic sanctions against countries that have been hotspots across the globe, including Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Ukraine, Russia, and Syria. These sanctions are compelling firms to formulate multi-disciplinary responses and… Read More >>
U.S. Fights Back Against Iranian Hackers
The threat of cyberattacks was prominent again in the news last week as the Department of Justice via the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed grand jury indictments against seven hackers based in Iran charged with running coordinated cyber-attacks on U.S. financial services firms and securities exchanges. In fact, Justice… Read More >>
JPMorgan Cyber-Attack Spurs ‘Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt’
(Editor’s note: In a companion piece to this story, FTF News explores how the FS-ISAC, a financial services cyber threat-sharing group, is automating the sharing of threat information across the financial sector. Read about it here.) The massive cyber-security breach at JPMorgan that compromised gigabytes of sensitive data is dialing up the “fear, uncertainty and… Read More >>
