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Beneficial Ownership in the British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean: A Cayman, Montserrat, and Bermuda Case Analysis

Source: United Kingdom Parliament

In recent years, beneficial ownership (BO) transparency has become a global priority in fighting against money laundering (ML), tax evasion, and illicit financial flows. The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) in the Caribbean—Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Bermuda—have all...

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Changes to the Digital Assets Issuance Law in El Salvador

El Salvador, through the Digital Assets Issuance Law (LEAD) in January 2023, enabled the tokenization of Real-World Assets (RWA) Tokenization, allowing the tokenization of agricultural commodities, debts, and the issuance of stablecoins like a USDT. In August...

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Cambios en la Ley de Emisión de Activos Digitales de El Salvador

En enero de 2023, El Salvador dio un paso importante para la tokenización de activos del mundo real (Real World Assets Tokenization) con la Ley de Emisión de Activos Digitales (LEAD), permitiendo la tokenización de productos agrícolas...

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MV Matthew: The Poster Child of an Overlooked Problem

How Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure underscores the need for ownership transparency in the world of international shipping. Choppy seas tossed boats off the coast of Cork, Ireland on a Sunday in September. As millions went to bed...

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Profit Shifting Case in Indonesia Highlights Need for Improved Tax Collection

By Forum Pajak Berkeadilan*, Woods & Wayside International, and Global Financial Integrity Indonesia, like many other countries, is suffering from a prolonged health crisis and economic fall-out caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. With a 2% decline in...

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Money Laundering Matters (and Law Enforcement is Failing)

Photo by Mike Balbus on Unsplash

by John A. Cassara John Cassara is a former US Treasury Special Agent and is on the Board of Directors of Global Financial Integrity. He has written numerous articles and books on money laundering and threat finance....

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Voices in Transparency – Zoe Reiter, Project on Government Oversight

“I am passionate about pushing governments to be more accountable to the public interest, especially to the groups that are systematically marginalized from power.” As part of Global Financial Integrity’s work to highlight the voices and work...

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The Year Ahead

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...

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