ACSS-OTSI Connect: Introduction to OTSI, Business Impact, and Priorities for 2025 - Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists

ACSS-OTSI Connect: Introduction to OTSI, Business Impact, and Priorities for 2025

February 27, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM NYC

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FREE Webinar

CSS Credits: 1.25

Duration:

60 minutes

Speakers:

  • Anna Deibel-Jung

Moderator:

Ivy Llena, Sanctions Training Coordinator, ACSS

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Time:

  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM NYC
  • 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM London
  • 04:00 PM – 05:00 PM Amsterdam

Description:

ACSS is thrilled to present an insightful webinar introducing the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI). This session is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of OTSI’s mission, its impact on global trade and compliance, and its strategic goals for 2025. Whether you’re familiar with trade sanctions compliance or just beginning to explore this critical area, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate OTSI’s regulatory landscape. Join us to gain invaluable insights into OTSI’s operations and how they intersect with your organisation’s compliance and trade strategies.

What the webinar aims to cover:

  • Understanding OTSI’s Role: Learn about OTSI’s mission and its pivotal role in implementing and enforcing trade sanctions.

  • Exploring Business Impact: Discover how OTSI’s policies influence industries and trade practices worldwide.

  • Strategic Priorities for 2025: Get an exclusive look at OTSI’s focus areas for the coming year and how they may shape compliance requirements.

  • Practical Compliance Tips: Gain actionable advice on aligning your sanctions compliance program with OTSI’s regulations and priorities

Certificate of Attendance:

All active ACSS members will be able to download the certificate from the Learning Management System (under the achievements tab). 

Event Registration

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ACSS Members who attend the live session can download their Certificate of Attendance from our member-only platform.

Speakers

Anna Deibel-Jung

Deputy Director
Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation Department for Business and Trade
Anna is responsible for establishing and leading the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). To maximise the impact of the unprecedented package of sanctions against Russia imposed by the UK, OTSI is being set up as a dedicated UK government unit, equipped with new powers, which will strengthen trade sanctions implementation and enforcement.

Anna is a highly experienced senior civil servant. Prior to moving to DBT to take up her current role last year, Anna spent most of her career at HM Treasury in wide-ranging leadership, policy and delivery roles, including leading the economic response to the Covid-19 pandemic, on savings and pensions, consumer policy and financial services regulation.

Moderator

Ivy Llena

Sanctions Training Coordinator
ACSS
Ivy Llena has over 14 years of experience in the learning and development field, providing capacity-building and professional development programs for corporate and social service agencies in the US and the Philippines.

Before joining ACSS, she was a program director at a non-profit organization in the Philippines, where she co-designed and co-implemented economic empowerment programs and services for survivors of human trafficking and their families. Ivy also served at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, where she led and contributed to inclusive economic growth initiatives.

Customer Testimonials

“I really appreciated the detail and references on the slides, very helpful”.

Scott Kinney, CAMS

Compliance Manager Global Sanctions Group, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

“Great job. Very informative”.

Brianna Long

Senior Compliance Analyst Compliance and Risk Investigations and Analysis, Convera