Financial Transparency Coalition

Video clips are now available on GFI's YouTube channel for every speaker at the July 24 Capitol Hill briefing on tax evasion and incorporation transparency that was organized by Task Force members Global Financial Integrity and Tax Justice Network along with Task Force friend, Citizens for Tax Justice. Check them out below: Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) made a surprise appearance at the briefing and spoke for a few minutes:

Raymond Baker, director of Global Financial Integrity, appeared this morning in a segment about the UBS case which ran on NPR's Morning Edition. Listen to the clip below, or read the online print article which also quotes Mr. Baker here. http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2009/08/20090805_me_09.mp3

National Public Radio: It's been an eventful week for Swiss banking giant UBS. It posted a $1.3 billion loss on Tuesday — its third straight quarterly loss.

The U.S. and Swiss governments have tentatively settled a legal dispute in which the U.S. government was demanding the names of thousands of Americans suspected of using Swiss bank accounts to hide money from the Internal Revenue Service.