Financial Reform Newsletter :Another week, another too-big-to-fail bank pays billions to settle yet more claims for fraudulent and illegal conduct for contributing to the 2008 financial crash.

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  Financial Reform Newsletter March 28, 2014   Another week, another too-big-to-fail bank pays billions to settle yet more claims for fraudulent and illegal conduct for contributing to the 2008 financial crash.  It was announced this week that Bank of America is paying $6.3 billion (and buying back an additional $3.2 billion …

Today’s News: Looking Forward: Poverty In 2015

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  Thursday, July 25, 2013 Looking Forward: Poverty In 2015 G20 Finance Ministers And Central Bank Governors Communiqué Released OECD BEPS Report Confirms The International Tax System Is Failing Rich And Poor Nations The Importance Of Whistleblowers To Financial Transparency Egypt In Crisis: A Look At Corruption Figures For The …

Other News: Edward Snowden and Financial Speculation Taxes

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

     Edward Snowden and Financial Speculation Taxes   Dean Baker* – The Huffington Post   In the last few weeks Edward Snowden has been holed in Moscow’s airport trying to negotiate terms of asylum with various countries around the world. Thus far it doesn’t seem that Snowden has been …