French activists occupy a branch of BNP Paribas to protest against that bank's deep engagement in offshore secrecy jurisdictions. … [Read more...]
Tax Havens
EU decides criteria for inclusion on tax haven blacklist: without fear or favour?
EU governments are very close to agreeing the criteria for the EU tax haven blacklist, expected to be finalised around September 2017 so the list can be endorsed by the end of 2017. … [Read more...]
Dissecting the Cayman Islands Offshore Financial Centre: small place, big money
We welcome this latest research on the under-researched Cayman Islands, an Offshore Financial Centre (OFC) 'with foreign assets amounting to over 1500 times Cayman's domestic economy.' As we so often explain, while Switzerland currently tops our Financial Secrecy Index, if the UK and its Crown … [Read more...]
