Financial Transparency Coalition

NEW DELHI: Ahead of G20 meet in South Korea, think-tank Oxfam said the bloc of 20 countries should devise methods to tackle tax havens, so that the interest of developing nations could be protected.

The official communiqué from the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors that was held in Gyeongju, South Korea on October 22-23, 2010.

The Washington Post—Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has asked the world's largest economies to commit to specific trade and currency targets in an effort to secure a global economic recovery.

BERLIN—On Friday and Saturday this week (October 22d-23th), the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors are due to meet in South Korea. The G20 had raised big expectations at a time when it promised the end of bank secrecy (London, April 2009). At that time, capital markets were reaching their lowest point over several years. Since then, they have partially recovered and the G20 tone has considerably softened. Would we have a correlation between Dow Jones levels and G20 softness? Without going that far, we can only reaffirm that transparency and the fight against corruption still have...