Sanctions foundations
What sanctions are, who imposes them, what obligations they create, and how sanctions screening differs from AML monitoring and fraud detection.
- 018 MINWhat sanctions areSanctions are legal restrictions on dealing with listed people, entities, and places — and banks are on the front line of enforcing them.START HERE — NO PREREQUISITES
- 0210 MINWho imposes sanctionsThe UN, the US, the EU, and the UK each run their own sanctions lists — overlapping but not identical — and a bank may owe obedience to several at once.AFTER: What sanctions are
- 0310 MINAsset freezes and restrictionsWhat a designation actually forbids: freezing assets, not making funds available, and the narrower sectoral restrictions that stop specific activities.AFTER: Who imposes sanctions
- 047 MINSanctions screening vs AML vs fraudSanctions screening, AML monitoring, and fraud detection answer different questions on different clocks — and confusing them causes real design mistakes.AFTER: What sanctions are
- 059 MINRisk-based screeningThe freeze obligation is absolute, but how a bank designs its screening control is a set of documented, defensible risk decisions.AFTER: Asset freezes and restrictions
- 0618 MINMoney laundering, terrorist financing, and FATFThe three stages controls are built to disrupt, how terrorist financing differs, and the FATF standards, reporting officers, and intelligence units behind the system.AFTER: Sanctions screening vs AML vs fraud