Sanction Force – 2025: No Room for Error

23 april, 2025

Event

UNIC, together with the educational project for financial monitoring professionals FinMon School and the big data platform VKURSI for counterparty verification, invites you to an online intensive dedicated to sanctions compliance and the practical challenges of sanctions screening in Ukraine. Among other aspects, the event will address the criminalization of sanctions violations and circumvention.

Date: May 7, 2025, starting at 14:30
Registration is required – only registered participants will receive the streaming link: https://bit.ly/4jMuWjH

The content is tailored for heads of financial monitoring and compliance departments, AML specialists, compliance officers, legal counsels, primary financial monitoring entities, businesses, and state enterprises.

The event will provide an in-depth discussion of:

Enforcement of sanctions legislation from the perspective of primary financial monitoring entities, state-owned enterprises, and international business
Challenges at the data level: completeness, publication methods, and regulatory documents that hinder or complicate sanctions compliance programs and screening within financial monitoring without automation
Criminalization of sanctions violations and circumvention, and its impact on business processes in financial monitoring, compliance, and legal and economic security of enterprises

You will receive valuable insights from recognized industry experts:

Inesa Lozenko, Co-founder of FinMon School, Vice President of the All-Ukrainian Association of Certified Financial Monitoring Specialists, Head of the Financial Monitoring Department at BEST Leasing.
Topic: Specifics of working with sanctioned clients and affiliated persons.
Andriy Hryshchuk, Co-founder of VKURSI big data platform for counterparty verification.
Workshop: Challenges of sanctions screening at the data and technology level – from 100% accurate verification of sanctioned persons among counterparties to large-scale checks of hundreds of thousands of counterparties within tight deadlines. Demonstration of automated large-scale screening of consolidated databases of individuals and legal entities, highly relevant for AML and sanctions compliance specialists.
Tetiana Khutor, Head of the Institute of Legislative Ideas – initiator and developer of the analytical basis for draft law No. 12406.
Olga Shenk, Partner at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang Ukraine, UNIC expert.
Interview Topic: Criminalization of sanctions – review of draft law No. 12406 and its impact on business.
Mykhailo Tretiakov, Managing Partner at AZONES Law Firm, lawyer specializing in energy projects, international trade, taxation, and foreign economic activity.
Topic: Legal aspects of sanctions enforcement in Ukraine.