Economic Sanctions Summit 2023

City & Financial Global is proud to present its highly topical Economic Sanctions Summit 2023, which will take place on 31st January 2023. 

KEY THEMES TO BE DISCUSSED

• How will the National Crime Agency enforce the new powers granted to it under the Act?
• Where does the UK stand with its international partners in combatting the threat from illicit finance and kleptocratic states?
• The European agenda for the enforcement of sanctions against Russia
• What will the imposition of sanctions, and the corresponding freezing of assets, mean for the City and the financial institutions involved?
• How will the proposed introduction of a new “strict civil liability test” affect the ability to impose financial penalties on wrongdoers?
• The US approach to imposing and enforcing sanctions against Russia
• How do the new measures impact financial institutions’ AML/ABC/CTF screening processes? 
• Dealing with the risks of crypto being used to fund the Ukrainian conflict, launder money, or evade sanctions by bypassing traditional payment systems 
• Orchestrating a global response to sanctions following the Ukrainian crisis: how far do UK, EU and US sanctions programmes diverge and how can organisations with a nexus to all three co-ordinate their strategies for dealing with sanctioned entities?
• Using the new provisions in the Act to assist in enforcing sanctions against beneficial owners with assets in the UK
• Unexplained Wealth Orders: how to use the new powers to best effect

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Senior management and executives concerned with sanctions, anti-money laundering, bribery and corruption, counter-terrorist financing, and other financial crimes, including heads of legal and other in-house counsel; financial crime and sanctions specialists; MLROs; heads of compliance; heads of risk; and heads of government relations. It will also be of interest to public officials, lawyers, and accountants.

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