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Print this pageICI and ICI Global Webinar on OFAC Compliance: A Deeper Dive from the Regulator’s Perspective
On September 27, 2012, the Investment Company Institute and ICI Global hosted a webinar featuring Adam J. Szubin, Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and members of the OFAC staff. The webinar explored, in depth, the steps funds and asset managers need to take to comply with OFAC sanctions programs and also will provide a unique opportunity to obtain OFAC’s perspective on sanctions compliance matters. In addition, OFAC staff responded to questions from webinar participants.
HIGHLIGHTS
The webinar focused on:
- How sanctions programs administered by OFAC apply to registered funds and asset managers, particularly from OFAC’s perspective
- OFAC’s top priorities and concerns and how they relate to funds and asset managers
- Recent OFAC enforcement actions and proceedings of interest to the financial services industry
- OFAC’s responses to questions from webinar participants
Speakers included:
- Adam J. Szubin, Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control
- Dennis Wood, Assistant Director, Sanctions Compliance and Evaluation, OFAC
- Jonathan Thomas, Chief, Regulated Industries and Evaluation, OFAC
- Brandon Reddington, Sanctions Adviser, Securities, Sanctions Compliance and Evaluation, OFAC
- Thomas C. Bogle, Partner, Financial Services and Investment Management, Dechert LLP
- Eva M. Mykolenko, Associate Counsel, International Affairs, Investment Company Institute
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