Financial Transparency Coalition

A new working paper from the Financial Transparency Coalition takes an in-depth look why open data standards are instrumental in harnessing the full power of financial transparency initiatives like beneficial ownership transparency and public country-by-country reporting. Publishing information in open data formats is critical to helping legislators, journalists, and citizens understand loopholes in current laws, and will

A new study supported by the FTC and published by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, a Coordinating Committee member, looked at India’s experience with exchange of information agreements with other countries, as well as recommendations for other countries to get better access to information on their citizen’s assets held abroad. 

The report is based on a Mentoring Workshop organised by CBGA and Financial Transparency Coalition, in New Delhi in December 2014. The purpose of the report is to discuss some of the important concepts and issues related to illicit financial flows (IFFs) and to present a few existing research methodologies on these issues, which could

Illicit financial flows from developing and emerging economies surged to US$1.1 trillion in 2013, according to a study released Wednesday by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington, DC-based research and advisory organization. Authored by GFI Chief Economist Dev Kar and GFI Junior Economist Joseph Spanjers, the report pegs cumulative illicit outflows from developing economies at