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FCG 7.4 Sources of further information

FCG 7.4.1

1To find out more on financial sanctions, see:

  1. • OFSI’s website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-financial-sanctions-implementation

  2. • OFSI provides FAQs on financial sanctions- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-faqs

  3. • Part III of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group’s guidance2: www.jmlsg.org.uk

  4. • OFSI UK Financial Sanctions Guidance: www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-general-guidance/uk-financial-sanctions-general-guidance2

  5. • Alerts published by the NECC: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/2

  6. • FCA sanctions webpages – these pages include our latest updates and details on how to report sanctions breaches to us:2

    1. ◦ www.fca.org.uk/russian-invasion-ukraine

    2. ◦ www.fca.org.uk/firms/financial-crime/financial-sanctions2

FCG 7.4.2

To find out more on trade sanctions and proliferation, see:

  1. • Part III of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group’s guidance on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, which contains a chapter on proliferation financing that should be firms’ chief source of guidance on this topic: www.jmlsg.org.uk

  2. • The website of the UK’s Export Control Organisation, which contains much useful information, including lists of equipment requiring a licence to be exported to any destination, because they are either military items or ‘dual use’ https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/export-control-organisation

  3. • The NCA’s website, which contains guidelines on how to report suspicions related to weapons proliferation: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/171-sar-guidance-notes/file2

  4. • The FATF guidance on proliferation financing:2

    1. ◦ www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/reports/Typologies%20Report%20on%20Proliferation%20Financing.pdf2

    2. ◦ www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Financingofproliferation/Proliferation-financing-risk-assessment-mitigation.html2

  5. • HM Government’s website, which includes the National Risk Assessment of Proliferation Financing: www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/board-toolkit/introduction-to-cyber-security-for-board-members2

  6. • The Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) helps to ensure that trade sanctions are properly understood, implemented and enforced. OTSI has published guidance regarding trade sanctions, and this is available on its website: www.gov.uk/otsi2