Financial Times
WASHINGTON – US banks uncovered billions of dollars that they were indirectly holding for Libya when Washington decided to freeze assets linked to the regime, according to US officials.
The sanctions, imposed by President Barack Obama just over a week ago, are so wide-ranging that they caught assets US banks were merely looking after on behalf of overseas banks in an arrangement called sub-custody.
Task Force Director Raymond Baker spoke to MBA students at Georgia Tech (his alma mater) ...
Standing at the pump, watching the numbers tick away, do you ever wonder where the ...
Half of the world's trade passes through tax havens. Right now, they are hiding billions ...
WASHINGTON, DC – Global Financial Integrity (GFI) today called on leaders of the G8 to ...
May 17, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, 41 business and civil society groups sent a letter to every ...
May 16, 2012
LONDON - Global Witness is today calling on Glencore to explain potentially corrupt deals in ...
May 5, 2012
Officials in Switzerland have opened criminal proceedings against Libyan and Syrian citizens suspected of holding ...
May 22, 2012
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May 21, 2012
In the past decades, corruption, tax loopholes, and ineffective trading regulations have widened the gap ...
May 21, 2012
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