Financial Transparency Coalition

Last week, the United Nations High-Level Panel on Financial Transparency, Accountability, and Integrity (FACTI) Panel released its much-anticipated findings. The momentous release, as FTC wrote in response, “established a new global standard on financial transparency.”

Earlier this week, reporters revealed that trillions of dollars had flowed in recent years to Luxembourg, thanks to the country’s role in Europe’s “axis of tax avoidance.” The so-called “OpenLux findings” – coming shortly after Luxembourg created a new register to collect the names of company owners (“beneficial owners”) – revealed that fraudsters, oligarchs and

PRESS RELEASE The Financial Transparency Coalition welcomes the news that the UK will finally be able to open up the financial centres in the British Overseas Territories. This has come about after the UK Government accepted a cross-party amendment to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill for Britain’s Overseas Territories to bring in public registers

As we mentioned recently on our blog the 3rd International Conference on Beneficial Ownership Registries took place in Buenos Aires on June 21st-22nd at Argentina’s Central Bank. This was another successful event attended by the Tax Justice Network’s Andres Knobel, who reports back to us here on the dicussions there:More than 150 people participated in the