Much has been made of the focus of the Trump administration on rolling back regulations, but less attention has been paid to its approach to enforcement.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence sits down with David Cohen, Partner at WilmerHale in their Regulatory and Government Affairs and Litigation/Controversy Practices to discuss the likely regulatory and enforcement focus for the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control – also known as OFAC which focuses on financial and economic sanctions – and the Financial Crime Enforcement Network – also known as FinCEN which focuses on anti-money laundering regulation and enforcement.

Before rejoining WilmerHale, Mr. Cohen served for eight years in senior presidentially appointed positions, including Deputy Director of the CIA. He was the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the US Department of the Treasury, and directly supervised OFAC and FinCEN. Mr. Cohen was instrumental in developing and implementing sanctions against Iran, Russia, North Korea, ISIS, al Qa’ida and other terrorist organizations, for which he was described as “President Obama’s favorite combatant commander” and as the administration’s “financial Batman.”