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Practice review: a cross-border payment frozen over sanctions
A cross-border payment touching a sanctioned party or region is frozen by the bank, with a long unfreezing process.
A typical scenario: a company's cross-border payment is frozen because the chain involves a sanctioned party, bank, or region, stranding funds and stalling the deal.
Sanctions have extraterritorial reach and strict screening; once triggered, unfreezing often needs lengthy explanations and licenses.
The lesson: screen counterparties, banks, and fund routes before transacting, keep records, and allocate sanctions-related risk in the contract.