On 13 January 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) (collectively, the Participants) published an information-sharing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which was signed and took effect on 9 October 2024. The MoU memorializes the strong collaboration between the USA and…

9-1-2016 4-49-57 PMThe U.S. government has announced significant increases to the maximum civil penalties for U.S. export controls and sanctions violations. The increases are required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 (the FCPIA Act). Details of the penalty increases are described below and available in the Federal Register, Vol. 81, No. …