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Jan 8, 2025 | 
cnas.org | Geoffrey Gertz |Alex Zerden |Rachel Ziemba
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) recently hosted its eighth Future Investment Summit, bringing financiers and business leaders to Riyadh in a bid to attract significant foreign direct investment (FDI). Oil revenue declines have dented the country’s steps towards its ambitious Vision 2030 plan to transform its economy and increased the importance of FDI in helping to meet its bold economic development goals.
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May 23, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Emily Kilcrease |Geoffrey Gertz |Alex Zerden
Despite its long history, the dollar’s preeminence and advantages face both international and, increasingly, domestic threats. Overseas, partners and adversaries continue to vie for an alternative currency or mechanism to move value at the scale, speed, and predictability of the U.S. dollar.
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May 23, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Emily Kilcrease |Alex Zerden |Geoffrey Gertz |Adam Tong
Welcome to Derisky Business! On this episode, we discuss the Biden Administration’s recent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, batteries, solar panels, and other goods. Diving into the arguments for and against tariffs, the episode explores the reasoning behind targeting these specific goods and the implications on domestic and international markets.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | David Mortlock |Alex Zerden |Daleep Singh |Cate Hansberry
Sanctions have become a tool of first resort. But enforcement needs upgraded and updated resources. Enforcement remains a critical but underresourced element of economic sanctions.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Alex Zerden |Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
December 29, 2023 Source: Axios Journalist: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian Why it matters: The sanctions expand on Beijing's previous efforts to criminalize certain kinds of research, intimidate individual researchers, and make it harder for companies to comply with U.S. sanctions against China. The escalating sanctions fight between the U.S. and China risks forcing companies to choose between the world's largest markets.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Emily Kilcrease |Yaya J. Fanusie |Alex Zerden |Rachel Ziemba
Rachel Ziemba makes her debut on the podcast to discuss what you missed at APEC while everyone was focused on Xi and Biden, prospects for growth in Venezuelan oil production, and why the market might be a little too sanguine about oil prices in 2024.
Listen to the full episode from Cognitive Dissidents. Reports December 1, 2023 No Winners in This Game Sanctioning China represents a challenge more complex than any other in the modern era of sanctions.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Alex Zerden |Laurent Belsie
“It’s a space of finite resources and constantly changing prioritization,” says Alex Zerden, a terror-financing expert formerly at the U.S. Treasury and now head of his own risk advisory firm, Capitol Peak Strategies in Washington. “Over the past several years, terrorist financing hasn’t been the dominating priority in an era of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, potential conflict with China, [and] the use of both sanctions and export controls” against nations rather than nonstate groups.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Alex Zerden |Mengqi Sun
The CFTC also imposed charges and fines against Binance’s former chief compliance officer, Samuel Lim, an action a CFTC commissioner said should serve as a message to the crypto sector about their compliance programs.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Alex Zerden |Ben Bartenstein |Suvashree Ghosh |Anna Irrera
Source: Bloomberg Journalists: Ben Bartenstein, Suvashree Ghosh, Anna Irrera Binance exploded onto the crypto scene in 2017 and saw its market share surge to more than 60% worldwide after the fall of FTX in November 2022. Since then, its combined market share for spot crypto and derivatives has declined to less than 44% this month, according to researcher CCData.
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Alex Zerden |Ephrat Livni |Joe Nocera
October 28, 2023 Source: The New York Times Journalists: Ephrat Livni, Joe Nocera Alex Zerden, founder of the risk advisory firm Capitol Peak Strategies and a former official at the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, told DealBook that debates about the data did not undermine the dawning realization that digital assets are part of this funding picture. “There is no de minimis exception for terror financing, regardless of the medium,” he said.
