Freemium - EBA Sanctions Guidelines Explained: New EU Rules for Banks, Payments, and Crypto Firms

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The episode explains the European Banking Authority’s new guidelines for sanctions compliance in financial institutions across the EU.

To listen to the full episode, head to Apple Podcast and search for PREMIUM version under the Same Episode Title. Thank you for supporting the Compliance Officers Playbook podcast show. In the full episode, we break down the European Banking Authority’s newly issued guidelines designed to standardise how financial institutions across the EU implement restrictive measures and sanctions controls. The rules apply broadly to banks, payment service providers, and crypto-asset firms, aiming to eliminate inconsistencies in how sanctions are enforced across member states. At the heart of the framework is a mandatory restrictive measures exposure assessment, requiring firms to evaluate how their specific business models, customers, and geographies expose them to sanctions risk. This assessment is meant to directly inform risk management strategies, screening systems, and internal controls. The guidelines also introduce clear accountability requirements, including the appointment of a senior staff member responsible for sanctions compliance with direct reporting lines to the management body. We explore additional operational expectations such as screening calibration, staff training…

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Host: Compliance Officers Playbook

Topics covered

• EBA Sanctions Guidelines
• EU financial regulations
• sanctions compliance
• risk management
• crypto-asset firms
• banking regulations

Keywords

• EBA
• sanctions
• financial institutions
• risk assessment
• compliance
• EU regulations
• crypto
• banking
• payment services

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Organizations: European Banking Authority, EU

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