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As We Build Towards Web3, We Need to Shift Our Focus Towards On-Chain KYC Solutions

As Web3 continues to develop, lawmakers and platforms are shifting their focus towards refining KYC, or know-your-customer, which serves as the barrier between Web3’s true calling for decentralization and centralized institution’s concerns for public good.

Benzinga

Exclusive-U.S. suspends tax information exchange with Russian authorities

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has suspended information exchanges with Russia's tax authorities in a bid to hamper Moscow's ability to collect taxes and fund its war against Ukraine, the Treasury Department told Reuters on Tuesday.

Reuters

Treasury bars Russia payments in dollars from US accounts

The Treasury Department will not allow any Russian government debt payments from accounts at U.S. financial institutions to be made in U.S. dollars, an agency official says

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Biden To Propose Change To Obamacare To Extend Subsidies For Families: WSJ

The Biden administration is expected to propose a change in Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies to allow some people to afford health insurance for their families, writes Wall Street Journal. The proposed change, expected to be announced Tuesday, would recalculate what is considered affordable for a family with employer-based health insurance.…

Benzinga

U.S. seizes Russian oligarch's $90 million yacht in Spain

It's owner, a Russian oligarch and Putin ally, has been sanctioned by the Department of Treasury since at least 2018.

Axios

Battle heats up over remaining federal rental assistance

A debate is playing out across the country as the Treasury Department begins reallocating some of the $46.5 billion in rental assistance from places slow to spend to others that are running out of funds

The Independent UK

U.S. issues fresh North Korea sanctions after recent missile launches

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on five entities it accused of providing support to North Korea's development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs, increasing pressure on Pyongyang following a recent series of missile launches.

Reuters

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The Independent UK

US Targets Russia's Technology Sector in Fresh Sanctions

The United States on Thursday imposed fresh sanctions on Russia, targeting the technology sector, a sanctions evasion network and what it called "malicious cyber actors" while paving the way to act against additional sectors in response to President Vladimir Putin's assault on Ukraine. "We will continue to target Putin's war…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Arabia Blacklists 25 People, Entities over Houthi Financing

Saudi Arabia said Thursday that it added 25 people and entities from different nationalities to the country's terrorism list, saying they are involved in financing Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militias. A statement by the presidency of State Security said that in coordination with the US Treasury Department - Office of Foreign…

Asharq Al-Awsat

U.S. issues sanctions over Iran ballistic missiles - Treasury

The United States is imposing sanctions on one person and his network of companies for providing assistance to Iran's ballistic missile program, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

Reuters

US Issues Fresh Russia-related Sanctions

The United States on Thursday imposed fresh Russia-related sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine including sanctions against dozens of defense companies, 328 members of the Duma legislative body and the chief executive of Sberbank, the Treasury Department said. Gold-related transactions involving Russia may be sanctionable by US authorities, the Treasury…

Asharq Al-Awsat

U.S. issues fresh Russia-related sanctions - Treasury website

Reuters

Pandemic relief money spent on hotel, ballpark, ski slopes

An Associated Press review finds that state and local governments have spent nearly $1 billion worth of federal coronavirus aid on projects that have little to do with combating the pandemic

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IRS unit gets no funds to enforce sanctions on rich Russians

The IRS criminal investigation arm tasked with tracking down sanctioned Russian oligarchs' property failed to receive an infusion of money in the Ukraine aid package

Tribune News Service

GOP midterm gains could augur market-rattling debt limit fight

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are girding for battle over raising the nation’s borrowing cap next year if they retake the majority in the November elections.

Roll Call

GOP midterm gains could augur market-rattling debt limit fight - Roll Call

House Republicans are girding for battle over the nation’s debt ceiling if they retake the majority in the November elections.

Tribune News Service

States often first in crypto enforcement, leaving feds to follow

WASHINGTON — State regulators are taking the lead on cryptocurrency enforcement in the absence of a national approach to regulation, in some cases acting years before companies faced federal charges.

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What are sanctions and how are they enforced?

An alternative to military action, sanctions are economic foreign policy tools.

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States often first in crypto enforcement, leaving feds to follow - Roll Call

State regulators are often faster than federal agencies in bringing charges against cryptocurrency companies for market misbehavior.

Bangkok Post

Group slams 'lack of progress' in court housing case

A group of conservationists has renewed their protest against a controversial housing project for judicial officials at the foot of the Doi Suthep mountain in Chiang Mai due to a lack of progress in the case.

Bangkok Post

Bids invited for Tak economic zone lease

The Treasury Department plans to call for bids to develop a special economic zone on its land in Tak province, in line with the government's development policy, says director-general Prapas Kong-Ied.

Bangkok Post

Vongsayam bid given green light

The Treasury Department yesterday decided to name Vongsayam Korsang Co the winning bidder of its concession to manage and operate the main water transmission pipeline system in the East of the country, quoting a bid of 25.6 billion baht, said Deputy Finance Minister Santi Promphat.

Miami Herald

How one bank served Venezuelans who looted their homeland, split for Miami

MIAMI — Leonardo González Dellán’s LinkedIn page promotes him as an entrepreneur and restaurateur. A 2019 U.S. Treasury Department sanctions notice called him something else: testaferro, a financial “frontman” hiding money for corrupt Venezuelan politicians.

Reuters

U.S. lawmakers push Treasury to ensure Russia cannot use cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions

Senator Elizabeth Warren and three other Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Treasury Department to ensure the cryptocurrency industry is complying with sanctions imposed on Russia, expressing concern that digital assets could be used to undermine U.S. foreign policy goals.

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