Financial Transparency Coalition

With the 2021 World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings beginning this month, FTC Director Matti Kohonen issued the following statement regarding tax justice, financial transparency, and the ending of illicit financial flows:

On Monday, new U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke in front of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Amidst ongoing discussions in the U.S. about a proposed $2 trillion economic plan, as well as discussions on financial responses to the pandemic and the Biden administration’s proposed economic and investment policies, Yellen revealed that the U.S. is

One of the biggest questions facing governments and civil society organizations over the past year has been clear: Has the financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic been fair and equitable, or has it exacerbated existing fault-lines?