Today’s Top Stories from GFI – Investors Should Hold BNP Paribas Accountable-Someone Has To

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  Monday, July 28, 2014 From the Global Financial Integrity Blog:     Debate in Delaware on Anonymous Companies    Why Wildlife Trafficking and Anonymous Companies are Mutually Inclusive       Why Tanzania Needs to be Careful with Gas Revenues    New Thomson Reuters Foundation Media Program to Investigate Illicit …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: U.S. government shutdown delays automatic tax information sharing

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

    Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Video: French Finance Minister Pierre Mosvovici on Public Registries, Transparency Agenda Getting the Regulations Right: Oil in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo #FTCDar2013: Not in Dar? Here’s How You Can Still Participate #FTCDar2013 Preview: Why We’re Here  Why Are Extractive Industries Prone …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: How Canada’s banks help money move in and out of tax havens

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Why Developing Countries Should Care About The G8 Summit Taxcast Edition 17: May ’13 Statement From The Financial Transparency Coalition: G8 Leaders Fail To Reach Financial Transparency Agreement Tax Wars: EU Playing Catch-Up With US New EU Anti-Corruption Standards Increase Demands For Greater Transparency To …

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Friday, June 14, 2013 G8 Leaders Tackle Tax Havens And Global Inequality G8 Preview: Momentum Toward Public Registries For Beneficial Owners It’s Time Corporations Flew Old Glory Instead Of The Jolly Roger Tom Cardamone In The Huffington Post Canada: The Trouble With Tax Havens G8: It’s Time For Action …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: GFI Calls on Obama, G8 to Require Public Registries of Corporate Owners, Curtail Illicit Flows

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Friday, June 14, 2013 G8 Leaders Tackle Tax Havens And Global Inequality G8 Preview: Momentum Toward Public Registries For Beneficial Owners It’s Time Corporations Flew Old Glory Instead Of The Jolly Roger Tom Cardamone In The Huffington Post Canada: The Trouble With Tax Havens G8: It’s Time For Action …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: When capital flies, but corruption stays behind

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Friday March 29, 2013 No More Shifty Business: Campaigners Call for New Tax Rules Farming for Rats: Perverse Incentives and Illicit Financial Flows Illicit Wealth and Enormous Tax Dodging Fuel Inequality Task Force Recommendations to the BRICS Summit 2013 Taxcast Episode #15: March 2013 HSBC by the Numbers Clips …

A scheme designed to net trillions from global tax havens is being scuppered

Ethical MarketsReforming Global Finance

Nicholas Shaxson – The Guardian Switzerland and other offshore specialists are doing their best to frustrate international transparency in taxation The world is seeing the first stirrings of an emerging new architecture of global transparency in taxation which could, if pushed forwards, help governments for the first time raise serious …

Invitation to Seminar “US: A Tax Haven” – July 17, 2-4pm

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On behalf of New Rules for Global Finance, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the FACT Coalition, it is my pleasure to invite you to our Seminar “United States: A Tax Haven,” to be held June 17, 2012 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779  …

An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth A Pound Of Cure

kristyReforming Global Finance

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 From the Task Force Blog: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth A Pound Of Cure 2011 Annual Task Force Conference Preview: Illicit Financial Flows and Inequality: A Human Right Imperative Launch Of The 2011 Financial Secrecy Index It’s Time For The UK To Act On Its …

Cayman Islands To Create A New Nowhere Land

kristyReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 From the Task Force Blog: Cayman Islands To Create A New Nowhere Land UK-Swiss Tax Deal Rewards Those Who Hide Their Money In Switzerland With Clown Noses And An Iron Lady Brazil Tackles Corruption China, Corruption, And The Rise Of Weibo EU Is To Ask IASB …