Financial Transparency Coalition

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

The year 2026 has started with escalating tensions and wider risks that undermine further advances in transparency and tax justice, as seen on 3 January with the US kidnap of the Venezuelan head of state, Nicolas Maduro, the US threats on the sovereignty of Greenland, or indeed the continued Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine soon