In recent years, OFAC has made the securities industry one of its compliance and enforcement priorities. It has endorsed a risk-based approach to compliance and listed types of transactions that warrant additional scrutiny or due diligence. The authors discuss the origins of this approach, common factors requiring reassessment of risk, and typical compliance measures to deal with it.

Originally published in the December 2013 edition of The Review of Banking & Financial Services, Vol. 29, No. 12.

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