Financial Transparency Coalition

PRESS RELEASE SwissLeaks money connected to Kenya is six and half times higher share of GDP than the money connected to Spain  In less than two weeks, G20 Finance Ministers will sit down to dinner, but developing countries won’t even have a seat at the table

Fresh revelations from the Guardian today, paint an even bleaker picture of HSBC Geneva’s client list. According to the paper, the bank’s customers included those who faced allegations of drug-running, corruption, doping and money laundering. Over twenty years, Global Witness has campaigned to stop a lot of things, from blood diamonds to corrupt dictators, to the money flows that fuel conflict. It appears that HSBC has been playing its part in enabling the money flows that support such activities. In some cases, the Guardian claims to have evidence...