Embargoes and Sanctions
Embargoes and sanctions prohibit all transactions with an entity, trading of certain commodities, or supplying critical goods. They may also require positive actions like freezing assets or enforcing travel bans.
Embargoes refer to a complete ban on all activity whereas sanctions are usually limited in scope. Violating embargoes and sanctions can result in fines as well as criminal charges.
Our Embargoes and Sanctions Training Course will help your employees understand what sanctions are, how they impact your business and how to comply with them.
- 45 Minutes
- All staff
- Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.

Learning objectives
- Recognise what embargoes and sanctions are and the purpose that they are designed to achieve
- Identify the steps our Company takes to comply with embargoes and sanctions
- Take appropriate action to comply with embargoes and sanctions
- Seek advice and report matches and transactions that might breach sanctions
What can you expect your employees to learn?
Introduction
What are embargoes & sanctions?
- Types of embargoes and sanctions
- You decide: Is it restricted or not?
- Who imposes embargoes and sanctions?
- Sanctions terminology
- Consequences: In the news…
- You decide: Is there a risk of sanctions violations?
Sanctions controls
- Company sanctions
- What embargoes and sanctions mean for us
- Your obligations
- You decide: Is it correct or not?
- Customer on-boarding
- Payments
- Payment stripping
- Third parties
- You decide: Sanctions compliant?
- Importing and exporting
- You decide: Identifying red flags
- You decide: Do the rules apply?
- Best practice for importing and exporting
Screening & matching
- The screening and matching process
- You decide: What type of match is it?
- Best practice: Screening and matching
Entities: Ownership & control
- Scenario: Sanctions and ownership
- Scenario: Insuring entities
- Scenario: The exporter
- Scenario: Sapphire
- Scenario: Sanctions checks
- Scenario: The workaround
Our reporting obligations
- Scenario: Louis' customer
- Record keeping
Summary
Affirmation
Assessment
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