The World Bank says its time to stop illicit financial flows
Monday, September 14th, 2009Ngozi Ikonjo-Iweala is MD of the World Bank. She’s spoken here and is saying that the importance of the issue we’re talking about — illicit
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There’s not an inch of evidence that regulation against illicit flows has worked
Monday, September 14th, 2009Stephanie Blankenburg of SOAS, London is peaking at the World Bank on issues relating to governance and illicit financial flows. She has said: There is
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Cayman nonsense
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009City AM reports: “Cayman isn’t a tax haven,” Travers insists. “It has had full transparency with respect to tax matters for over a decade, most
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Cayman: a lopsided economy will always crash
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009The Guardian’s editorial this morning picks up the Cayman theme. Normally I won’t reproduce whole stories for copyright reasons, but since I gave them this
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Cayman: the Lehman moment
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009Cayman is posing a challenge. It claims that it is well regulated, as do many of its competitors. But what happens if the regulator is
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Tax Justice Network USA
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009Tax Justice Network: U.S. nonprofits, facing withering fire, join tax haven fray. TJN has needed its own voice in the USA for some time. Now
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To Jersey and Guernsey, an apology
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009I think I owe Jersey and Guernsey an apology. I’ve been predicting both will go bust for a number of years. It seems though that
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The Guardian on Cayman
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009The Guardian has commented on the Cayman story. I am the expert referred to in what follows: A wealthy tax haven, a tropical paradise: it’s
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Subjugating a nation
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009The Guardian has reported: The Conservative deputy chairman, Lord Ashcroft, [has] denied a charge from the prime minister of Belize that he had "subjugated an
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