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August 11th, 2015
We have the financial transparency ideas, now we need the right open data standards to go with them! As a member of the Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC), Global Financial Integrity is seeking proposals from experts in the area of data standards for a consultant to produce a scoping study that identifies the range of open
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August 3rd, 2015
Academics Stand Against Poverty, the Yale Global Justice Program, and Global Financial Integrity invite submissions of original essays of ca. 7,000 to 9,000 words on the intelligent use of incentives toward curtailing corporations’ use of tax evasion and avoidance, abusive transfer pricing and all forms of illicit financial flows. All prizes are named in honor
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July 28th, 2015
Across the EU, governments are currently in the process of implementing the newly adopted reforms to the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Directive. The FTC is following the process closely, and is especially interested in developments at the national level regarding beneficial ownership transparency. Each EU member state will set up a centralized register with information related
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July 22nd, 2015
Yesterday, the World Bank committed to examine ways to collect and publish information about the real owners of companies (also called “beneficial owners”) participating in Bank-financed contracts. We welcome the Bank’s leadership as the impact of its new procurement policy stands to affect a portfolio of about US $42 billion invested in more than 1,800
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