Banking secrecy

United Kingdom

Euroviews. It’s time for the asset recovery industry to embrace AI’s potential ǀ View

Using sophisticated algorithms, it is now possible to achieve far better outcomes in terms of speed, cost and accuracy, while also removing much of the complexity and unpredictability historically associated with locating undisclosed assets, particularly hidden bank accounts.

20/12/2019

France

French court fines UBS 4.5 billion euros for facilitating tax avoidance

A French court has fined Swiss banking group UBS up to 4.5 billion euros on charges it helped conceal deposits and assets to allow tax avoidance

20/02/2019

Germany

Secretive Bilderburg Meetings open in Dresden

It has been dubbed the world’s most high-powered but secretive annual meeting where bankers mingle with politicians.

09/06/2016

World

Panama Papers lessons

Panama is at the centre of a global hurricane sparked by the leak of a huge list of documents which have become known as the “Panama Papers”

08/04/2016

Europe News

EU's Moscovici urges tougher action on tax havens

The European Commission on Thursday renewed its vow to tackle global tax avoidance following the publication of the so-called Panama Papers. It made

07/04/2016

Business Line

Panama's financial secrets and the new Tesla Model 3

Over recent years after the 2008 financial crisis the some of the world’s biggest banks paid billions in fines for helping wealthy clients evade

06/04/2016

My Europe Series

The women who knew too much: the price to pay for whistleblowers

“The woman who really knew too much” is how Stephanie Gibaud has described herself. It’s also the title of a book published last year by the former

29/01/2016

My Europe Series

Combating offshore accounts

02/05/2013