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Tiem for forgiveness?
Havens take the heat off leaders – Accountancy Age. Accountancy Age asks: Tax havens are unlikely candidates for public sympathy, but are some being treated
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Still in the bankers thrall
Darling wastes a chance for real change | Noreena Hertz | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk . Finally out from behind the shadows of the
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Private equity – dedicated to offshore
The FT notes: At a time when governments are launching a fierce assault on tax havens, the [part of] Fortis now owned by the Dutch
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Size does not matter (well, not that much….)
The FT notes: Switzerland upped the ante in a global regulatory assault on the banking industry on Thursday as its central bank warned that Zurich
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The FSA – pointing the way to usury
As the Guardian notes: An information site run by the personal finance industry regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), is promoting a sub-prime loan comparison
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What sort of automatic information exchange do we need?
I’ve published a discussion paper on information exchange today. The full report is here (only 6 pages). The key question is what data do all
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Norway issues tax haven report
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a major player in the fight against tax havens. It is a major funder of the Task Force
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Salvaging bits from the wreckage
There were some useful bits in Alistair Darling’s Mansion House speech yesterday: The first lesson is that transparency is paramount. To promote greater transparency, accounting
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