Financial Transparency Coalition

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...

As I'm sure that you know, we're gearing up for the upcoming G20 Summit this November in Seoul, South Korea. (Which reminds me, if you haven't already signed the G20 petition: please do so by clicking here...). The organizers of the G20 Seoul Summit (i.e. the Korean Government) have also been preparing, and they've just released their official video, "Let's go 뮤직비디오(영문) ." If you're not already pumped for Seoul beforehand, you sure will be after watching.