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, …

Better Markets: Smoking Gun Catches the SEC in a Lie: It’s Time for the SEC to Disclose its Secret Settlement Collusion with Wall Street.

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Financial Reform Newsletter April 11, 2014 Smoking Gun Catches the SEC in a Lie: It’s Time for the SEC to Disclose its Secret Settlement Collusion with Wall Street. Two separate reports this week have scratched the surface of what could soon be a full-blown scandal at the SEC. First, a recently …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: EU Parliament Votes For Public Registries of Company Ownership

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

    From the Financial Transparency Coalition Blog: European Parliament Gives Overwhelming ‘Yes’ Vote to End Secret Corporate Ownership Millions of Euros Left Ukraine: Why Beneficial Ownership Transparency is Common Sense As Europe Tightens Oversight, Spotlight Must Remain Why Russia No Longer Fears the West: It’s the Offshore, Stupid Understanding …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: New Money Laundering Video

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

    Thursday, November 7, 2013 Government Must Shut Down Corporate Tax Havens Spain’s New Law on Transparency A Good First Step EU Countries Must Do More to Combat Corruption by Better Protecting Whistleblowers Statement on the US and the Open Government Partnership BBC Broadcast – British PM in Transparency …

Top Fraud Prosecutor: Banking Criminals Can Be Forced to Give Back Their Ill-Gotten Bonuses

Ethical MarketsReforming Global Finance

By Washington’s Blog I asked Bill Black whether or not bonuses given out based on fraudulent Ponzi schemes and manipulation of a company’s accounting books could be disgorged. And I asked hims to estimate how much could – hypothetically, if prosecutors and judges did their job – collectively be recouped …

Use subordinated debt as asset-liability match, says Cairn Capital

kristyReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Use subordinated debt as asset-liability match, says Cairn Capital Asset manager urges investment in financial institution debt to solve portfolio mismatch. 04/10/11 Green investment by pension funds needs stable regulatory environment – OECD Over half of corporate pension funds have SRI strategy in place, says Eurosif Carlos Joly: I support …