Financial Transparency Coalition

By Lakshmi Kumar and Julia Yansura This report assesses where the United States currently stands in terms of beneficial ownership, analyzes how beneficial ownership is seen in the U.S. policy priorities, looks to the future of ways to strengthen beneficial ownership in the United States going forward, and puts beneficial ownership in the context of

Illicit financial flows are constantly in flux, and our understanding of them keeps evolving. Estimating just how much money is lost through corruption, tax evasion, money laundering, and tax avoidance can be a difficult task. But understanding what estimates are out there, and what they mean, shouldn’t be.

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 report from Global Witness and Global Financial Integrity, supported by the FTC, looks at how anonymous company ownership can harm businesses, investors and the health of the global economy. The brief includes a number of recommendations, including: