Financial Transparency Coalition

In this Prezi, the final installment of a three-part series, I put illicit financial flows into context around the world.

How international pressure is helping to open up Switzerland, but more is needed to make a real dent in international poverty.

Nearly 5 years ago the international community, led by the United States, imposed the first in a line of increasingly harsh economic sanctions on Iran in the hopes of ending the country’s nuclear ambitions. Despite some signs of success, consensus on the effectiveness of the sanctions remains elusive. However, what is becoming clear is that sanctions are contributing to an explosion of corruption and funneling billions of dollars to Iran’s fastest growing group of kleptocrats: the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, is like an amalgam of the Iranian CIA, Marines, Mafia and Fortune 500....

Washington, DC (The Hill) -- The U.S. launched a new initiative on Sunday aimed at battling large-scale public corruption in foreign states.