Financial Transparency Coalition

The months leading up to November’s G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia are littered with conferences and gatherings to develop a more narrow focus of what priorities the Group of 20 wants to highlight. You can easily have a say, through the C20, a civil society platform that contributes to the G20 discussion. But be quick! The commenting period for the ongoing C20 dialogue closes on April 6th.

While President Vladimir Putin’s name didn’t make the first round of sanctions issued against Russian officials yesterday, the Obama administration said that his addition might not be far off, according to a recent article in the Associated Press. How this will affect Russian actions in Ukraine remains to be seen, but with President Putin in

Last month, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) released a report to outline how shifting to a new international information exchange system would work.

In the coming days, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will face a clear-cut choice: to move closer to ending financial secrecy, or to stagnate within the current system of opacity. The specific issue at hand is whether corporations should be required to disclose beneficial ownership information, which identifies who actually owns a company. The