I watched Johnson’s tawdry little video about the UK leaving the EU this morning: I had not the slightest inclination to do so last night.
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The FT has reported this morning that: HSBC’s private bank will pay $192m in penalties and admit to helping US customers hide more than $1bn
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This post by me was also on Left Foot Forward this morning: Boris Johnson is proposing that the UK should, post-Brexit, have at least ten
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The FT published this chart this week, noting that for the first time the value of US $100 bills in circulation exceeds the value of
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The FT has reported that Lloyds Bank has been forced to freeze 8,000 accounts held with it in Jersey because the owners of those accounts
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A regular commentator on this blog sent me a mail saying this yesterday: I came across this article today. https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-05-07/how-major-banks-turned-a-blind-eye-to-the-theft-of-billions-of-pounds-of-public-money I did know about it, having
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Yesterday I noted that 3 million people in the UK own at least 5.7 million offshore bank accounts according to HMRC. Overnight Global Witness issued
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By pure coincidence I had a booked telephone call yesterday to discuss with an NGO why accountants were not apparently complying with anti-money laundering regulation.
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The Treasury Committee of the House of Commons has reported this morning on economic crime in the UK. It thinks Companies House a major weakness
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