Iran’s ability to sell oil and collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz highlights some of the U.S. dollar derisking architecture erected by states and blocs seeking independence from U.S. sanctions jurisdiction.
An in-depth interview with Hdeel Abdelhady on sanctions policy, export controls, financial regulation, and Iraq’s economic future, with analysis of global trade fragmentation and technology governance.
Hdeel Abdelhady discussed the Trump Administration’s TikTok sale framework with the BBC News.
Hdeel Abdelhady discussed at ACAMS U.S. export controls on semiconductors and other technology and items to Russia, and U.S. and foreign financial institutions’ compliance obligations.
Although the BIS Guidance is a directive to FIs, it very much affects exporter customers of FIs. Here’s what exporters should know.
The ZTE case illuminates a potentially transformative shift in how the United States deploys its legal and regulatory authority in the international economic arena—a development with profound implications for global commerce, compliance practices, and the rule of law.
Hdeel Abdelhady is scheduled to speak at UNCITRAL’s Asia Pacific spring conference in Incheon, South Korea, on global sales and business. More information about the conference is available here (and in Korean here).
BIS advises financial institutions to guard against EAR violations through: (1) screening against export lists, (2) enhanced due diligence for high-risk transactions, (3) derisking, and (4) reporting and self-disclosing EAR violations. The BIS guidance reiterates FIs’ obligation to file suspicious activity reports (SARs) as directed in three prior FinCEN-BIS alerts.
MassPoint Principal Hdeel Abdelhady will participate in the American University Law Review Federal Circuit Symposium, as a panelist on international trade and technology.