Illicit Finance

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WORKING PAPERS
The Financial Secrecy Index: Shedding New Light on the Geography of Secrecy - Working Paper 404
Alex Cobham et al.
May 19, 2015
Both academic research and public policy debate around tax havens and offshore finance typically suffer from a lack of definitional consistency. Unsurprisingly then, there is little agreement about which jurisdictions ought to be considered as tax havens—or which policy measures would result i...
Blog Post
How Can We Make Illicit Finance Less Illicit?
Petra Krylová et al.
May 14, 2015
Blog Post
Taxing Multinationals: Is There a Pot of Gold of Finance for Development?
Maya Forstater
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Vijaya Ramachandran
April 13, 2015
Taxation, which has been a Cinderella subject in development, has finally been invited to the ball, but the arguments that have helped to push taxation up the finance-for-development agenda may also be in need of clarification.
Blog Post
Bitcoins for Everyone? Cryptocurrencies Are Not a Magic Bullet for the Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money Laundering Policies.
Matt Juden
March 20, 2015
Blog Post
Why Arbitrary Measures of Money-Laundering Risk Are Nonsensical and Unfair
Matt Collin
March 13, 2015
Last week the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority decided to fine the British branch of the Bank of Beirut over £2m for failing to establish sufficient controls to guard against the possibility of money laundering or other financial crimes.
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Fear of Being “Outed”: Why Banks Are Deserting Developing-Country Clients - Clay Lowery
March 10, 2015
Rules to name, shame, and punish banks, whose clients may funnel money to terror groups, are denying much-needed funds to developing countries.
Blog Post
Fear of Being “Outed”: Why Banks Are Deserting Developing-Country Clients
Rajesh Mirchandani
March 10, 2015
Rules to name, shame, and punish banks, whose clients may funnel money to terror groups, are denying much-needed funds to developing countries. It’s a clash of two sets of sound policies, says Clay Lowery, former assistant secretary for international affairs at the US Treasury and the chair of...