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News, updates, and insights from the world of sanctions, denied parties, sanctioned party ownership, and other international trade compliance issues. August 25, 2025 Kharon BIS 50% List (KBIS/KBISU) In anticipation of the Bureau of Industry and...
Automating Your Export Shipment and Compliance Processes Streamlining Shipment Flows, Reducing Risk, and Enabling Business Growth Complying with export rules and regulations can be a daunting task. Navigating internal business processes while...
Reduce Risk and Increase Compliance by Efficiently and Accurately Screening for Denied Parties with MK Denial
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U.S.-based engineering and professional services corporation Black & Veatch places a high priority on complying with global regulatory requirements, including those related to export compliance. By automating denied party screening with Descartes...
Executives at a major manufacturing company are huddled in a boardroom discussing how to fix their internal compliance processes after receiving a multi-million dollar fine for failing to properly vet a new customer who later turned out to be a...
Executives at a major manufacturing company are huddled in a boardroom discussing how to fix their internal compliance processes after receiving a multi-million dollar fine for failing to properly vet a new customer who later turned out to be a...
Challenges and Opportunities in Emerging Compliance Requirements The expectation is for companies to be more accountable in the compliance process than ever before. Take, for instance, U.S. and EU Sanctioned Ownership Screening requirements...
The sentiment in some parts of the corporate world is that complying with denied party screening rules is a must, and money spent on it represents little more than sunk cost. Some would go so far to claim that compliance is an impediment to business...
The situation is all too familiar. The company’s top sales rep has just completed a detailed dialogue with a prospect, and, believing that this is a five-figure deal in the making, enters the notes into the Salesforce Customer Relationship Management...
Denied Party Screening and Salesforce CRM Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms such as Salesforce often act as the centralized platform for sales, marketing, and other departments. The contact and lead records within CRMs change at a...
EXPORT COMPLIANCE Why do Organizations have to Meet Export Classification Requirements? As with import compliance, a crucial part of export compliance regulations that is enforced by governments and jurisdictions around the world is controlling the...
EXPORT COMPLIANCE What is Risk Management? When mentioned in context of export compliance, risk management may refer to compliance with restricted party screening regulations, but more specifically to sanctioned ownership screening rules, including...
EXPORT COMPLIANCE What is OFAC Screening? OFAC screening is a subset of denied party screening that applies to organizations doing business in the United States or transacting in U.S. Dollars anywhere in the world. OFAC screening involves checking...
EXPORT COMPLIANCE What is Denied Party Screening? Denied party screening refers to the process of comparing names of customers, business partners, facility visitors, etc., against official watch lists of individuals and entities with whom it is...
EXPORT COMPLIANCE What is Export Compliance? Governments and international bodies maintain regulations and rules governing all export activities within their jurisdictions. Export compliance, therefore, refers to the act of complying with these...
It is undeniable that compliance laws the world over have become more challenging to manage as regulatory authorities focus on adding further safeguards to protect national security. For businesses, this means that we must be more proactive in the...
Operating in the defence and aerospace industries, Meggitt PLC relies on robust export compliance practices. To this end, Meggitt deployed Descartes Visual Compliance™ to simplify and accelerate denied party screening to mitigate risk. Seamless...
American companies and other organizations with business interests in the U.S. have recently had to scramble to comply with Washington’s new Military End Use (MEU) law last December and, more recently, the Military Intelligence End User (MIEU) rules...
LONDON, UK, 31.3.21 -- Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that CPG Logistics Ltd, a long-established logistics services provider in the UK, is using Descartes’ e-Customs...
With climate change a common topic of conversation these days, many people welcome the technological advances that are making electric vehicles (EV) a cost-effective alternative to traditional gas-fueled modes of transport. But according to global...
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