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🎯 Treasury proposes rule to extend AML regs to investment advisers. The new rules would require covered investment advisers to file SARs to FinCEN and to disclose additional client information. CNBC
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🌎 Tankers Tied to the Russian Oil Trade Grind to a Halt Following U.S. Sanctions. The latest to be targeted — the Sovcomflot carrier NS Leader — performed an immediate U-turn off the coast of Portugal on Thursday when its owner was named by the US. Bloomberg
🌎 Russia warns the West: we will be very tough if you 'steal' our assets. The EU on Monday adopted a law to set aside windfall profits made on frozen Russian central bank assets to finance the reconstruction of Ukraine. Reuters
🌎 Brutally violent Venezuelan ‘Tren de Aragua’ gang is using migrant wave to launch NYC phone robbery spree. It’s a crime wave that has raised fears across the city: robbers on mopeds snatching people’s phones and speeding off. NYP
🌎 How Wall Street Won a Battle Over Venezuelan Sanctions. Bondholders warned Washington that Russia and its allies were benefiting from U.S. trading ban. WSJ
🌎 Why Biden couldn’t resist TikTok. Under national fire last year — and still under official security review — TikTok spent money, made the right friends and appears back in the fold. Politico
🤨 White House: Nothing has changed about TikTok use from national security perspective Reuters
🌎 HP Seeks $4B in Losses From Lynch Over Autonomy Fraud. Founder Mike Lynch inflated Autonomy’s revenue alongside his CFO and induced HP to buy the firm for $11B. Bloomberg
🌎 EU proposes sanctions on Chinese firms for helping Russia. Brussels wants to sanction companies in mainland China for the first time as war in Ukraine nears 2-year mark. Politico
🌎 China invests in ‘Chiplet Valley’ to bypass US sanctions. Unlike traditional chips, which cram all components onto one chip, chiplets break chips down into smaller, specialized modules. Semafor
🌎 How Two Irish Businessmen Almost Took Nigeria for $11 Billion. A mundane contractual provision met with rampant corruption — revealing a serious vulnerability in one of the backbones of international commerce. NYT
🌎 US says it’s taken possession of a Boeing 747 that Iran sold to a Venezuelan firm. Venezuela called the transfer a “shameful rapacious operation” and vowed to “take all actions to restore justice and achieve the restitution of the aircraft to its legitimate owner.” AP
🌎 Fired FirstEnergy execs indicted in $60M Ohio bribery scheme; regulator faces new charges. Jones, Dowling and Randazzo face a combined 27 new felony counts. AP
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