General Note on Provisions Containing Secondary/"CAPTA" Sanctions Applicable to Foreign Financial Institutions (System Ed. Note)

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General Note on Provisions Containing Secondary/"CAPTA" Sanctions Applicable to Foreign Financial Institutions (System Ed. Note)

1) BACKGROUND

510.210 (NKSR); 566.201 (HFSR); 561.201 (IFSR); 561.203 (IFSR), 561.204 (IFSR) and 561.205 (IFSR) are all separate, independently operating sanctions regimes contemplating penalties for foreign financial institutions (FFIs) that conduct or facilitate certain transactions characterized as "sanctionable." In all cases, the penalties are "correspondent account or payable-through account sanctions" ("CAPTA sanctions"). Note that FFIs conducting such transactions are not in violation of U.S. law, at least to the extent that the transaction does not involve conduct that is "prohibited," as opposed to merely "sanctionable." See General Note on the terms "Exempt," "Authorized," "Licensed," "Prohibited," "Not Prohibited" and "Sanctionable" (System Ed. Note). As discussed below, CAPTA sanctions are a particular subset of sanctions that is squarely...