Today’s Top Stories from GFI – IRS Nets Offshore Data From 77,000 Banks, 70 Countries In FATCA Push

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Wednesday, June 4, 2014 From the Global Financial Integrity Blog: New York Regulator on BNP Paribas: Someone Needs to Get Fired Why Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s First Act Was To Go After Illicit Financial Flows Chart: Russian Bank Deposits in the U.S. Before and After Sanctions Credit Suisse, …

NewNet: Goldman Sachs to buy 19 per cent stake in Dong Energy

Jay OwenGreentech

3 October Today’s Top Stories SAP commits $650m for IT investmentPREMIUM EIB lends €100m for efficient power, emissions reductions in Russia UK’s Good Energy to raise £5m through bond sale PREMIUM Algaeon raises $50,000 as it opens funding round PREMIUM Biofuel developer Cool Planet plans $60m refinery in Malaysia First Maxpower gets …

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 …

GreenTech Solar: Kosovo Is a Test for the World Bank’s Support of Clean Energy

Jay OwenGreentech

  LATEST NEWS: Kosovo Is a Test for the World Bank’s Support of Clean Energy  Jigar Shah – May 31, 2013 A moment of truth for the World Bank What an Efficiency Startup Is Learning From Third-Party Solar Financing  Stephen Lacey – May 31, 2013 “We’ve studied the solar industry very …

Bond news: IRS provokes roaring laughter w. Destiny Green Bond ruling

kristyReforming Global Finance

You have to hand it to the US IRS (Internal Revenue Service) – they seem to have a sense of humour. In 2004, the US Congress created tax-credits for Green Bonds for large construction projects that would serve as demonstrations of alternative energy technologies. In 2007 Destiny USA issued $228m …