Financial Transparency Coalition

Washington Post - U.S. and Swiss negotiators have initialed a settlement that averts a legal showdown over the U.S. government's landmark challenge to Swiss bank secrecy, a government lawyer said Wednesday.

ABUJA (Reuters) - The fight against corruption and electoral reform are expected to be high on the agenda when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua on Wednesday.

Reuters - Liechtenstein and Britain said on Tuesday they had signed an agreement to encourage British clients of banks in the Alpine principality to voluntarily disclose untaxed money. Here are some details about European countries who have been maintaining strict laws protecting banking privacy.

MANY OF the policies adopted by the UN to end global poverty are “unrealistic and unattainable” because they advance the interests of the rich at the expense of the poor, according to a report by Leprosy Mission Ireland.