ASD Senior Fellow for Malign Finance Joshua Kirschenbaum joined Jesper Berg, Director General of the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority, and Evika Silina, Parlimentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Latvia on a panel at the German Marshall F [...]
ASD Senior Fellow Joshua Kirschenbaum and GWU's Jennifer DeNardis discuss the recent Financial Action Task Force evaluation of Russia with the Program on Compliance and Enforcement at the NYU School of Law. "Russia in recent years has been the most [...]
ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum and the Financial Integrity Network's David Murray highlight the growing risk that opaque foreign investments pose to U.S. national security. "The U.S. has always welcomed foreign capital – much to our economic bene [...]
Awareness of who owns what is critical to national security, and the U.S. government knows far less than you think. Even after Congress outlaws completely anonymous companies, it will still be difficult for the government to understand patterns of [...]
In a new paper, ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum and the Peterson Institute's Nicolas Veron suggest improvements to the EU's anti-money laundering supervisory structure. Major banks or financial institutions in more than 15 countries in the Europea [...]
ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum Testifies before the European Parliament Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance [...]
Statement of JOSHUA KIRSCHENBAUM Alliance for Securing Democracy, the German Marshall Fund of the United States BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL CRIMES, TAX EVASION AND TAX AVOIDANCE Concerning “Money laundering cases involving Russian ind [...]
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently agreed to remove sanctions against Oleg Deripaska’s EN+ Group. As a corollary, it will also remove from the sanctions list Rusal, which is one of the world’s largest alu [...]
Washington Post article highlights ASD and C4ADS' joint investigation into the First Czech-Russian Bank. When French politician Marine Le Pen needed cash for her far-right party, an obscure Russian bank agreed to help. Four years later, the [...]
Main Recommendations Payments: Establish an international payments database and improve the quality of payment instructions Investments: Require private investment funds to maintain AML programs and report their investors and investment positions [...]