{"id":22628,"date":"2022-11-28T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/sanctions-internationales-risque-de-responsabilite-intermediaires-financiers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:59:54","slug":"sanctions-internationales-risque-de-responsabilite-intermediaires-financiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/sanctions-internationales-risque-de-responsabilite-intermediaires-financiers\/","title":{"rendered":"International Sanctions as a Risk of Responsibility for Financial Intermediaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-7dtlel-54646e090b2362c0ce717e7039213545 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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