Financial Transparency Coalition

In the coming days, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will face a clear-cut choice: to move closer to ending financial secrecy, or to stagnate within the current system of opacity. The specific issue at hand is whether corporations should be required to disclose beneficial ownership information, which identifies who actually owns a company. The

Victor Yanukovych lives on 340 acres of land on the banks of the river Dnieper in Ukraine. His home, a five story mansion named Mezhyhiriya, is decorated with marble, crystal, and precious woods. It is difficult to overstate the luxury of this palatial building. Its cedar doors are worth $64,000 each, the wall paneling in

I was delighted to talk at the launch of Eurodad’s new report – ‘Exposing the lost billions: How financial transparency by multinationals on a country by country basis can aid development‘ – last evening in the European Parliament. The report is on country-by-country reporting and is another major contribution to the debate now going on in Europe on this issue, and how far such reporting should go.

LONDON - New European plans to reveal more about multinationals’ finances will help tackle corruption in the oil, gas and mining industries - but need toughening up if they are also to help poor countries fight multi-billion pound tax dodging, says Christian Aid.