Webinars
- March 18, 2021
Sanctions Risks in Securities and Capital Markets
Online Certificate Courses
OFAC Essentials Online Certificate Course
- April 07, 2021
Spring Session
EU Sanctions Essentials Certificate Course
- May 12, 2021
Summer Session
Anti-Bribery Essentials Online Certificate Course
- September 29, 2021
Fall Session
CSS Certification with Virtual Classroom
- March 16, 2021
Spring Session - March 30, 2021
Spring Session (In Chinese) - June 15, 2021
Summer Session - September 07, 2021
Fall Session

Sanctions in the Cryptocurrency Space: Current Trends and OFAC’s Best Practices for Compliance
February 28, 2021 By: Alejandro Leáñez, Reporter, ACSS With hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions over recent years, virtual currencies are becoming a major player in the global economy. Some cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, can even fetch a price of over...
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Sanctions in the Cryptocurrency Space: Current Trends and OFAC’s Best Practices for Compliance
February 28, 2021 By: Alejandro Leáñez, Reporter, ACSS With hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions over recent years, virtual currencies are becoming a major player in the global economy. Some cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, can even fetch a price of over...
Compliance on the High Seas: Dissecting OFAC’s Maritime Shipping Advisories To-Date
February 22, 2020 By: Benoit Beaulieu, ACSS Reporter In accordance with sanction regimes targeting Syria’s Assad regime, North Korea, and Iran, maritime shipping has been a point of focus for sanctions authorities and those operating within their jurisdiction. This...
The New U.K. and E.U. Global Human Rights Sanctions Regimes
February 3, 2021 By: Benoit Beaulieu, Content Writer, ACSS From the global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, documented atrocities in Xinjiang and Myanmar, to repression in Hong Kong and Belarus, 2020 was a year that was unfortunately scarred by human rights...
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