Financial Transparency Coalition

You may have noticed that things look just a tad different on our website. A redesign of the Financial Transparency Coalition website has been in the works for while, and it’s now become a reality, thanks in no small part to a great design firm. We want FinancialTransparency.org to be a place where journalists, policymakers, and concerned

As many of the Coalition’s members gathered last week in London, they carved out some time to make an appearance on ChristianAid Radio, an online radio station run by ChristianAid, a London-based charity organization and member of the Financial Transparency Coalition. In the 45 minute segment a number of FTC representatives talk about recent policy

Since the financial crisis, we have heard a lot about the revenue governments lose to tax avoidance and evasion, but what about the losses resulting from corruption of governments’ procurement processes? Around the world governments spend $9.5 trillion each year on public works, goods and services. It should be no surprise that fraudsters, and the corrupt, take

Lately, we've had quite a few reasons to get outraged as global citizens, especially when looking at the financial system, which seems all too well rigged in favor of a small, wealthy elite. We've learned of secret tax deals undoubtedly concocted in ominously tall office buildings between some of the worlds biggest companies and a tax haven; and we've also learned of billions of dollars that were being held by a Swiss bank by the world's wealthiest, amid claims that the bank was helping many of these people...