BETTER MARKETS: Financial Reform Newsletter

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Financial Reform Newsletter July 10, 2014 As the media reports that more Wall Street settlements are coming, Better Markets continues to fight for accountability on Wall Street and at the Justice Department, urging a federal court to require DOJ to tell the American people what JPMorgan Chase did in …

Fighting Wall Street in the rulemaking process to protect Main Street.

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Financial Reform Newsletter April 3, 2014 Fighting Wall Street in the rulemaking process to protect Main Street. A funny thing happened on the way to preventing another financial crash and more wall street bailouts.  It’s called the rulemaking process, which is required to implement much of the financial reform law …

New issue of “Green Growth the Nordic Way”

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

The September edition of “Green Growth the Nordic Way” explores the topics of market building and market surveillance for a greener economy in a regional, cross-border setting. It features articles on two projects from the Nordic Prime Ministers’ green growth initiative that try to expand and explore Nordic markets on sustainable building …

Young’s China Business Blog Daily Newsletter: May 27

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

     YOUNG’S CHINA BUSINESS BLOG                                                    DAILY NEWSLETTER                                                       May 27, 2013 LightInTheBox IPO Moves Ahead   Today I want to give myself the poor timing award for my recent remarks about the upcoming New York IPO for Chinese e-commerce firm LightInTheBox. A day after commenting that the company’s IPO had mysteriously …

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 …

Revised UN Convention Seeks To Encourage Investment, Combat Corporate Tax Evasion

kristySRI/ESG News

REVISED UN CONVENTION SEEKS TO ENCOURAGE INVESTMENT, COMBAT CORPORATE TAX EVASION New York, Mar 14 2012 6:05PM The United Nations announced today that it has updated a set of guidelines to prevent double taxation between countries, as well as to avoid tax evasion, which costs countries $3.1 trillion every year. …