May 1, 2020
Editor’s Note: This opinion piece was written by a former US Treasury official, who has requested anonymity. Many illicit finance experts agree trade-based money laundering (TBML) is one of the largest, if not the largest, money laundering...
By Tom Cardamone, April 30, 2020
There are just ten years left to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and yet countries face a $2.5 trillion annual financing gap to achieve the corresponding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This figure does not account...
April 14, 2020
As much of the world experiences life under quarantine from COVID-19, the team at Global Financial Integrity share our top picks for the books, TV shows, movies and long-form journalism examining illicit financial flows (IFFs) from multiple...
By Maureen Heydt, March 16, 2020
The revelatory Luanda Leaks by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 35 partner organizations exposed the critical role financial service providers – frequently Western – play in facilitating massive international financial scandals. Indeed, the ICIJ...
March 4, 2020
A lack of trade integrity results in potentially massive revenue losses – all at a time when most countries are struggling to mobilize domestic resources for development Global Financial Integrity (GFI) recently released its newest report, “Trade-Related...
January 30, 2020
We have a big year planned for 2020. From advocacy and research, to panel participation and other high-level engagements, check out some of the projects we’ll be working on this year: Advocacy In 2019, we began advocacy...
By Dev Kar, October 29, 2019
Excerpted from ‘India – Still a Shackled Giant’ by Dev Kar, with Penguin Random House India permission. A few years after retiring from the IMF, I applied for the position of lead economist at GFI, then a...
By Maureen Heydt, October 21, 2019
Twenty-five luxury vehicles worth over US$27 million. Gilded toilets in a secret forest compound. Three lions in a private zoo. A US$200,000 wedding dress for a cabinet minister’s daughter. The bounty of kleptocracy can take many, sometimes...