Sanctions compliance ensures businesses stay on the right side of the law and do not engage with sanctioned entities or individuals - it should form the cornerstone of any compliance program. The LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Sanctions Pulse series is a comprehensive overview of the watchlist changes from major regulators, empowering compliance professions to understand trends and implement a sanctions compliance program suited to the everchanging regulatory environment.
An intense pace of list updates at the beginning of 2022 led to an “unprecedented” year for sanctions activities:
The overwhelming weight of the Russia/Ukraine conflict:
Other emergencies triggered sanctions designations:
By Country:
2022 also saw:
Download the latest Sanctions Pulse infographic to make sure you are up-to-date with the unprecedented sanctions activity in 2022.
Learn more about our Watchlist Screening solutions here.
1. Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Sanction. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved January 18, 2022, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sanction
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