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The BBC has reported that the UK's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have been told to improve standards of regulation, and find new methods of raising tax. A government-commissioned report suggests changes offshore centres need make to meet international standards. Michael Foot, the report's author, said that several jurisdictions had "a good story to tell, but others had more to do on regulation and tackling financial crime". As TJN observes , one useful thing the report does is to recognise that the OECD's standards on information exchange are...

The Wall Street Journal has reported that while the spotlight has been on the aggressive drive by the U.S. government to flush tax dodgers out of Switzerland, bankers here are instead grappling with the loss of a much richer clientele: Europeans Read article

The Financial Times has reported that the Financial Secrecy Index will be published soon. This Sunday according to Richard Murphy . The league table to be published by the Tax Justice...

LIGFI just sent a press release that demonstrates once more it is a Luxembourg deceptive economic intelligence operation with no intelligence as it ignores facts in a jurisdiction that does...

The media have reported that Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland yesterday met about banking secrecy. This meeting was for german-speaking attendees. Luxembourg was not in the group. The...