
We, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, met today to prepare for the Leaders’ London Summit. We agreed further action to restore global growth and support lending, and reforms to strengthen the global financial system.
A bill to ensure that persons who form corporations in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations for criminal gain, to assist law enforcement in detecting, preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, and other misconduct involving United States corporations, and for other purposes.
The G-20 countries together must take aggressive action on two fronts – first, to ensure economic recovery and restart global growth, and second to reform supervisory and regulatory framework to prevent economic crises from occurring in the future. The United States will work with its G-20 counterparts in forging this global two-part response.
This week, the G-20 will meet in London amid a severe global economic downtown and ongoing stress in the world’s financial markets. This is a global crisis which calls for a global response.
Summary and full text of the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act of 2009 (S. 506, H.R. 1265), as introduced by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX).
WASHINGTON, DC – A unique global coalition of civil society organizations and more than 50 governments has been established to address the inequalities in the financial system that penalize billions of people.