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September 2021 1st Edition

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Romanian lender, US investor stung by US over Syria, Iran transactions

Romanian lender First Bank and its US private equity owner JC Flowers will pay just over US$860,000 to settle US allegations they processed almost 100 payments, including trade finance transactions, in violation of sanctions against Syria and Iran. First Bank showed a “reckless disregard” for Washington’s sanctions regime and did not understand that the scope of US sanctions extends to banks without a physical presence in the US, according to an August 27 statement from the US Office of Foreign

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Cryptocurrency in Conflict Zones: Risks and Opportunities

For the past two weeks, the world’s attention has been firmly fixed on Afghanistan. One critical challenge, both for those fleeing and those left behind, is access to money.  The banking system is on the verge of collapse, with many branches closed and those which are open quickly running out

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‘Cash for Passports’: Montenegro Scraps Scheme after EU Warning

Montenegro cancelled so-called economic citizenship programe A controversial scheme selling Montenegrin citizenship to wealthy foreign investors is being canceled after the European Union warned that it could foster corruption and harm the country’s progress towards membership of the bloc. When the former prime minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, received Montenegrin

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