December 4, 2025
By Tanya Tono, In practice, U.S. port inspections often treat drug seizures as isolated cargo incidents, not opportunities to investigate the ship or its owners. For example, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in San Juan...
November 18, 2025
By Tanya Tono The Dark Side of Open Registries In the global shipping industry, “flags of convenience” (FoC) refer to the practice of registering a vessel in a country other than where its owners are based. These...
By Luisa Acosta, Claudia Marcela Hernández, June 4, 2025
El financiamiento del terrorismo (FT) es un delito que está asociado con los fondos y/o bienes que sostienen a los terroristas o grupos de terroristas para poder operar. Este financiamiento puede ser utilizado para comprar armamento, costear...
By Tanner Clegg, May 2, 2025
Amid the bedlam ignited by Watergate and national intelligence agencies’ abuses of power in the 1970s, Idaho Senator Frank Church mounted a Senate investigation into glaring corruption in the world of international business. This investigation, conducted by...
By Leon Dawson, March 10, 2025
In recent years, beneficial ownership (BO) transparency has become a global priority in fighting against money laundering (ML), tax evasion, and illicit financial flows. The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) in the Caribbean—Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Bermuda—have all...
By Claudia Marcela Hernández, September 11, 2024
El Salvador, through the Digital Assets Issuance Law (LEAD) in January 2023, enabled the tokenization of Real-World Assets (RWA) Tokenization, allowing the tokenization of agricultural commodities, debts, and the issuance of stablecoins like a USDT. In August...
By Claudia Marcela Hernández, September 6, 2024
En enero de 2023, El Salvador dio un paso importante para la tokenización de activos del mundo real (Real World Assets Tokenization) con la Ley de Emisión de Activos Digitales (LEAD), permitiendo la tokenización de productos agrícolas...
January 23, 2024
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