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G20 Meets to Act on Corporate Taxes – But More Needed on Corruption

18 September 2014 in Accountability, Anti-corruption movement, Asset recovery, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, G20, Impunity, People power, Politics and government, Private sector

The often highly complicated approaches used by giant corporations to lower their tax bills will be under attack at this weekend’s key meeting of finance ministers of the Group of 20 most powerful nations in Cairns, Australia. The G20 is expected to act to end systems where companies like Apple, Amazon, Starbucks and many others […]

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Do settlements for corporate financial malfeasance work?

21 August 2014 in Accountability, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, G20, Private sector

This week Standard Chartered Bank reached a second settlement with regulators in New York for failing to monitor suspicious financial transactions. It had also promised to tighten up its anti-money laundering processes when it admitted violating US banking rules on transactions with countries under sanction including Sudan and Iran. Perhaps it didn’t get the message. […]

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