BBC – Panorama – Tax inquiry into Lloyds off-shore . More on tonight’s Panorama. Other publicly funded banks are also continuing to do business off-shore
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New Zealand: increasing its tax haven status
New Zealand is one of the world’s lesser known tax havens — and a pernicious one. Take this example: As a non-New Zealand resident bondholder,
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One third of Africa’s wealth is outside Africa
Paul Collier of Oxford is speaking at the Task Force — he chairs its economists panel. One third of Africa’s wealth is outside Africa he
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No, No, No Switzerland
Bloomberg and many others note a proposal from Switzerland this morning (I’m in US time zone). They say: Swiss banks proposed a withholding tax for
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How do you square the risk based approach to client identification with the need to stop crime?
Chip Poncy of the US Treasury is talking on ‘know your client’ obligations as required in FATF rules — those things places like Jersey like
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Time to clean up the US corporation
Good to hear Matthew Rosen of the New York County District Attorney’s Office (Morgenthau’s team in other words) saying that the big problem with regard
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Carl Levin gets a standing ovation : Senator Carl Levin: News Release
09-16-2009 – Keynote Address by Senator Carl Levin at the Conference on Increasing Transparency in Global Finance: A Development Imperative : Senator Carl Levin: News
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The $1 Billion, “90% Stock Loan” Scam Lingers
The $1 Billion, “90% Stock Loan” Scam Lingers. The government complaint filed in the case alleges that these four men and other defendants promoted a
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The bravest man I’ve ever met – again
Two years ago I wrote a blog about the bravest man I’d ever met. I didn’t name him then. I won’t now. I said then:
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