Sanctions Space
Episodes
Oksana Ihnatenko on Supporting Ukraine
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine sat down with Oksana Ihnatenko, RUSI, and ACAMS Rising Professional of the Year. Their discussion includes Ok...
Carole House on AI, Cyber and Sanctions
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine sat down with Carole House, Senior Distinguished Fellow, ACAMS. Their discussion includes the AFC implication...
Alex Zerden on the Middle East, Crypto, Cartels and Changing U.S. Priorities
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine sat down with Alex Zerden, Capitol Peak Strategies. Their discussion covers a range of U.S. sanctions priorit...
Stephanie Baker on Punishing Putin
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the ACAMS Europe Assembly in Paris, Justine sat down with Stephanie Baker, Senior Writer, Bloomberg. Their discussion includes how Russia has explo...
Laura Ferris on Sanctions, Corruption, and Illegal Logging
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the margins of the ACAMS Hollywood Assembly, Justine sat down with Laura Ferris, The Sentry, to discuss illicit financial flows linked to environme...
Kimberly Donovan on Geopolitics and the Emerging Axis of Evasion
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘As we start to piece this all together, we found that there were certain trends and typologies that were very similar in terms of how China was wor...
Marshall Billingslea on U.S. Sanctions Policy and Priorities
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘I think that the administration is prudently reviewing the sanctions to determine what measures could be eased, in what sequence, in the event that...
Edward Fishman on the Age of Economic Warfare
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘We’re living in an age of economic warfare. Sanctions, export controls, tariffs – they’re now the primary way that states compete with one an...
Elaine Dezenski on U.S. Sanctions and Economic Statecraft in 2025
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘Navigating the fault lines between the U.S. and China and this accelerated convergence of economic statecraft – not just how sanctions might be d...
AML Legends Talk Sanctions
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘I believe that it’s become very complex for financial institutions to actually comply. The ask by the Treasury to focus on sanctions evasion is r...
Jasleen Bains on the Terrorism-Crypto-Sanctions Nexus
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘Looking at KYE (know your ecosystem), you’re able to essentially review the transaction that is not directly with you, and so you can see where t...
Jessica Bartlett on Adapting to Evolving Sanctions Risks
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘We’re all going to be on this journey, I don’t think we’re going to be in a world where no one’s going to use AI because it’s too hard, w...
Gavin Coles and Kylie Oliver on the Australian Sanctions Perspective
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘As the other core markets for Russia are closing down and tightening the grip, they’re looking for other mechanisms. And we may be seen as an eas...
Toms Platacis and Paulis Iljenkovs on Countering Sanctions Evasion
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘there must a deterrent effect, that people must be afraid to breach sanctions, especially when it involves common high priority goods or items that...
John Smith and Chloe Cina on the Sanctions Enforcement Landscape
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘It’s one of the most important developments I think you’ll see coming out of the US in terms of sanctions enforcement, probably for years’ ...
Giles Thomson on UK Sanctions Priorities and Enforcement
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘We’ve got new legal powers which we will be using… but also the scale of how we’re operating has, for OFSI at least, changed. Both in terms ...
Matthew S. Axelrod on the Critical Importance of Export Controls
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'they have a critically important role to play. I think we’re at an inflection point… export controls have never been more important – and the r...
David Mortlock on Sanctions Enforcement and Asset Recovery
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘The last time this was done - with Iraq - you had two things we’re not going to have here, which is number 1 a [UN] Security Council Resolution, ...
Edmund Fitton-Brown on Yemen and the Houthis
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘You’re not in this classic terror finance space where you are looking at a group like Al Qaeda and people trying covertly to move donations or ot...
Peter Harrell on Global Sanctions in 2024
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘There are going to be frictions – I think what we can hope for is that both sides will try to figure out a way to just kind of manage through the...
Melissa Duffy on Strategic Trade and Export Controls
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘It’s the biggest deal. It’s the tip of the spear in the regulators effort to constrain Russia’s war ability’ -Melissa Duffy speaking about ...
Jason Blazakis on the Future of the Wagner Group
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘I think the risk is still high. It’s going to take some time for the Wagner Group’s new leaders to step into those roles… I still see the org...
Jonathan Schnatz on the IRS:CI and Countering Sanctions Evasion
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘What we’re really seeing is the use of professional enablers, both by oligarchs to continue to hide their assets, and also in the export controls...
Craig Timm on the Role of the US Department of Justice in Strengthening Sanctions
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘The amount of resources they have going into this is significant - there are people in every state in the country focused on this… and I expect y...
Matt Zweig on the Dynamics of US Congressional Sanctions Policy
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘I always like to describe Congress as writing in pen, and the administration as writing in pencil’ In the latest episode of the Sanctions Space...
Toms Platacis on the Frontline of Sanctions Implementation
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘Unfortunately, I must say that you don’t have to be a criminal mastermind to come up with a sanctions evasion or circumvention scheme… most of ...
Nathalia Dukhan and Naureen Chowdhury Fink on the Wagner Group
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘We should not consider Wagner as a traditional mercenary group, but more as a powerful weapon used by Russia and we should all feel threatened by i...
Justyna Gudzowska and Dan Tannebaum on Looking Ahead to 2023
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘As we look at Ukraine, as we look at these unprecedented sanctions, we really have to close the loopholes that are created by the Wagner Group’s ...
Alexander Rodnyansky & Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi - Russia Sanctions & Supporting Ukraine Reconstruction
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ACAMS was honoured to be joined at our Europe conference by two advisors of the Office of the President of Ukraine - Professor Alexander Rodnyansky an...
Tom Keatinge on the Scale and Scope of Russia Sanctions
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“the oligarchs are symbolically important and also, if anybody is going to have an opportunity to whisper in the ear of Vladimir Putin and say ‘wh...
Emily Rees on the Global Trade Implications of the Ukraine Crisis
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
‘’In one week we have seen governments change their historical policy positions in what is really now being considered to be a watershed moment, p...
Special Episode: Kieran Beer and Dr. Justine Walker on Russia and ACAMS 2nd Global Sanctions Summit
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, our two ACAMS podcasts meet for the second time - Financial Crime Matters and the Sanctions Space. Following conclusion of ...
George Voloshin on Potential Sanctions Dynamics of EU-Russia Ties and Trade
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“we should acknowledge the simple fact that, in economic terms, Russia matters much more to the EU than it does to the US, and that the EU matters t...
Dr. Maria Shagina on What to Watch on the Ukraine/Russia border and the Table of Sanctions Options
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
‘Diplomacy is not dead, but significant differences remain… and Russia’s intentions vis-à-vis Ukraine still remain clear. That means the path o...
Sue Eckert on the Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation and UNSC Resolution 2615
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
‘humanitarian groups cannot be expected to provide assistance in these complex areas without some risk… we have to accept that this is a situation...
Adam M. Smith on Afghanistan Humanitarian Considerations
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
‘there’s never been a situation, of which I’m aware, in which an entity like the Taliban…are designated, and have long since been designated, ...
Hans-Jakob Schindler on the Taliban, sanctions, and implications for Afghanistan
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Justine is joined for the second time by Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, to talk about th...
Jonathan Hackenbroich on Geo-Economics, Nord Stream 2, and Financial Resilience
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
‘we’ve entered a great power competition, that’s not between two blocs… but rather between two very highly integrated economic spheres’ In...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Kieran Beer and Dr. Justine Walker
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
‘The use of sanctions has grown incredibly, the complexity of sanctions, the reach of US person globally, the use of secondary sanctions – these a...
Jennifer Fowler And John Smith On Working On Sanctions In Government And Preparing For Transition
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
‘prepare for some very difficult times ahead, where the world’s number one and number two economies – when it comes to the US and China – will...
Julia Friedlander on Finance and Foreign Policy
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘we’re really at a point where we are saying – what are sanctions really? What do they actually do? They’re somewhere between a serious finger...
Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on Counter Terrorism Sanctions
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘the rise of ISIL was a real turning point on global counter terrorism, only maybe eclipsed by 9/11' In this episode, Justine is joined by Dr. Han...
Ian Stewart on Proliferation
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘it’s not easy to build a nuclear weapon… the science isn’t easy, and physically making sure it goes bang as needed isn’t easy’ In this ...
Ellie Geranmayeh on the Middle East
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘one track of my work is trying to bring different strands of people in different societies together… to look at the same problem from different a...
Dan Wang on China
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘China has always taken seriously industrial policy and some degree of import substitution, and these US actions are now really kicking that effort ...