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    PEPs & Sanctions

    US Reimposes Sanctions on Venezuela’s Oil and Gas Sectors

    By Editors | 20/04/2024

    Venezuela has fallen short of its commitments in terms of opening up the democratic and electoral process, US officials said.

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    AI Risk & Governance

    ISDA Offers Guidance on Using GenAI in Derivatives Markets

    By Manesh Samtani | 19/04/2024

    The report identifies use cases for GenAI in the OTC derivatives market, and explores regulatory issues, challenges and risks.

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    Payments & Settlements

    BIS Project to Simplify Financial Infrastructure Development

    By Manesh Samtani | 19/04/2024

    BIS Innovation Hub and partners will develop a tool to enable easy implementation of next-gen payment systems and settlement infrastructures.

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    PEPs & Sanctions

    US, UK Unveil Initial Sanctions Response to Iran’s Airstrike

    By Editors | 18/04/2024

    The US sanctions target Iran’s drone production, steel industry and auto companies. The UK targeted those responsible for the weekend attack.

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    PEPs & Sanctions

    US Treasury Terminates Zimbabwe Sanctions Regulations

    By Editors | 18/04/2024

    The Zimbabwe sanctions programme is terminated and replaced with Magnitsky sanctions against 11 individuals and three entities.

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    Liquidity Risk

    FSB Consults on Non-bank Margin and Collateral Calls

    By Editors | 17/04/2024

    FSB recommendations seek to reduce procyclical behaviour of non-bank market participants in response to margin and collateral calls.

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    Climate Risk

    BCBS Consults on Ways to Improve Climate Scenario Analysis

    By Editors | 17/04/2024

    New BCBS paper asks about key challenges and how methodologies, capabilities and scenarios can be further improved.

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    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Supervisors Need to Improve Collaboration With Private Sector

    By Manesh Samtani | 17/04/2024

    Cecilia Skingsley said central bankers and supervisors need to be more transparent with SupTech vendors and simplify procurement processes.

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    Cloud & Infrastructure

    GLEIF Announces First European-based vLEI Issuer

    By Editors | 17/04/2024

    The vLEI is the cryptographically secure digital counterpart of a conventional LEI that can be used to automate business process.

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    Trade Based Money Laundering

    Copper Being Disguised as Scrap for Russia-China Trade – Report

    By Editors | 16/04/2024

    Chinese firms are using this mechanism to benefit from lower tax and to make it more difficult to trace the copper to its Russian origin.

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