Even though the importance of financial transparency is widely recognized, it seems unlikely that the German grand coalition would push public country-by-country reporting forward in the Council of the European Union, after Transparency...
Call for tenders Application deadline: 18 May 2018 Purpose of Assignment Produce a paper analysing how anti-money laundering (AML) obligations interplay with sector-specific obligations such as client confidentiality or public interest duty (e.g....
On 9 February 2018, Transparency International EU responded to the Monitoring Group consultation on “Strengthening the Governance and Oversight of the International Audit-related Standard-setting Boards in the Public Interest” calling for civil...
Berlin / Brussels, 5 March, 2018 – Today, a series of investigations published by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have detailed how citizenship- and residence-by-investment schemes, commonly referred to as...
TI EU is recruiting a consultant related to the project, which aims to explore the role the EU can play in facilitating responsible asset recovery looking at both the general EU legal and policy framework. It also looks into more targeted...
Tomorrow, Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign affairs chief, will chair the EU–Azerbaijan Cooperation Council with the Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. The Azerbaijani Laundromat, which was revealed by the OCCRP last...
Looking at the evaluation of new FATF standards, private sector implementation of anti-money laundering measures is among the areas with lowest effectiveness out of the 11 outcomes assessed, with major improvements needed in virtually all countries....
Last Friday, December 15, after a 48-hour marathon ‘trilogue’ of negotiations between the three EU institutions a historic deal reinforcing beneficial ownership transparency within the EU has finally been signed. The revisions to the 4th...
Today, the EU has agreed to new anti-money laundering rules which will increase transparency around the ultimate owners of companies according to Transparency International EU. The long-awaited new rules are a breakthrough and a step closer to...