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The German financial centre beat off competition from eight others as the EU puts the final touches to dirty-money reforms. Frankfurt has won the race to host the EU’s prestigious new anti-money laundering

Malta must improve its implementation of three key anti-money laundering issues before it can be taken off a global watchdog’s financial crime grey list. The three points form part of an action plan

Imagine a world where financial transparency is not just an ideal but a structured, enforceable mandate. Cyprus is inching closer to this vision, with its recent announcement signaling a pivotal shift

The nation’s millionaires and billionaires are evading more than $150 billion a year in taxes, according to the head of the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS, with billions of dollars in new funding

Cyprus has yet to enforce the new EU rules introducing a minimum effective tax rate of 15% for multinational corporations operating within EU member-states. Alongside nine other countries, Cyprus was

The competition to select a city to host the new EU Anti-Money Laundering Agency (AMLA) is to get under way in Brussels, with Dublin in contention along with eight other cities. Ireland is competing

Chinese hedge fund managers are scrambling to soothe investors after a rout in small-value stocks, even as regulators step up scrutiny of major market players’ activities as they try to revive

The Maltese Government yesterday made it clear that it opposes the European Commission’s proposals for the introduction of a harmonised taxation system for companies. At the same time Malta is

The EU announced Tuesday its revised tax haven blacklist, which removed Anguilla, Dominica and Seychelles, but the NGO Oxfam immediately called it “a joke” given the Pandora Papers revelations.

In a world where financial secrecy has often been synonymous with offshore havens, the Cayman Islands has emerged as a beacon of transparency and compliance. This is a tale not of hidden treasures but