Financial Transparency Coalition

On October 29th, Global Financial Integrity will host the book launch for: Global Corruption: Money, Power and Ethics in the Modern World by Laurence Cockcroft.

Iran's currency is in free-fall. After a slow slide throughout 2012, the Iranian Rial all of the sudden took a dive this week, according to CNN:

No one knows better than law enforcement officials on the ground about how dangerous anonymous shell companies are. They allow criminals and criminal organizations to secretly access the financial system, which in turn enables them to commit more crime. New York City District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr, in an op-ed at Reuters, argues that anonymous

Thank you for coming to this launch of my new book. Most particular thanks to Raymond Baker and his colleagues at Global Financial Integrity for organizing and hosting this event. Raymond is one of the heroes of this book. His vision, his skill and his dynamism have made and continue to make an enormous contribution to public understanding of illicit financial flows. From that understanding springs action to reduce those flows – an absolutely vital requirement to curb corruption.