Financial Transparency Coalition

Who really benefits from illicit deforestation?  Who is behind the profits generated by illicit deforestation, and crops like soy and pasture for beef production grown on illicitly deforested land. Our launch event of the ‘Financial Secrets of the Forests’ on 20 October, 2026, explored these questions. This session analysed illicit financial flows in the forestry

An important announcement came through today at the Our Oceans Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, this week as sixteen nations have signed up to the Mombasa Declaration, which is a commitment to advance global fisheries transparency including a commitment to beneficial ownership transparency of all fishing vessels.  It builds on the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency

The issue of public access to shareholder registries is currently under consideration in the most recent case before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) concerningthe transparency of shareholders in publicly accessible limited companies in Latvia (Case C-798/24), which was referred to the court by the Latvian Constitutional Court (Satversmes tiesa). As the Financial Transparency Coalition

LONDON – Illicit deforestation drains billions in Illicit Financial Flows from the Global South – $1.28 billion for Brazil & $289 million for Cameroon in timber exports alone every year – as financial secrecy prevents uncovering the real owners of land, forestry concessions and companies who are responsible, according to a new report by the