GT Group’s Protean Ian Taylor in the UK: Reuters’ Special Report on 43 Bedford Street, and More
An ignominious decade of UK company registration, illustrated by UK companies formed by Ian Taylor, an old friend from New Zealand
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Japan Isn’t Playing Neoliberalism’s Word Games
Has the progressive left in western democracies forgotten how to embrace the mainstream? When I compare the approach which anti-neoliberal causes take in the U.S. and Europe with the approach taken by the same causes in Asian countries, especially Japan, I can only say yes, it has. One explanation for how pro-labor movements have been […]
Read more...Is Fiscal Policy for Prosperity Back in Place of Austerity?
Austerity appears to be quietly going out of fashion.
Read more...Deutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at
Deutsche Bank’s $10Bn: the shell company back story
Read more...Bill Black: Thomas Friedman Wants A “Center-Left” Democratic Party Based on Austrian Economic Myths
Thomas Friedman has managed to outdo himself on the downside.
Read more...Brexit Risk and Nigel Farage: We Know Where His Mouth is (“England”), But is His Money Offshore?
Is Nigel Farage’s wealth offshore? Is that why he’s so calm about Brexit?
Read more...New Zealand: Kea Street Cred and US$1Bn Promise Lures Kiwi to Front Very Peculiar Financial Service Providers
Another duo of wildly offbeat New Zealand Financial Services Providers
Read more...New Zealand: Icon Sachs (Whatever That is), Fennas Finance, a Bank Account at an ANZ Napier Branch, a Conspiracy Theorist And a Ponzi Scheme
Yet more strange sightings in the New Zealand Register of Companies
Read more...New Zealand: the World’s Tiniest Stock Exchange, ‘a Big Ponzi Scheme’, and Other Crazy Tales From John Key’s Financial Services Hub
New Zealand’s Offshore Financial Services Providers: a new sampling of strange creatures
Read more...Ian Fraser: Just How Corrupt is The UK?
Never mind the “fantastically corrupt” Afghanistan and Nigeria. What about the UK?
Read more...#panamapapers: Questioning the Picture Painted in the WSJ’s Interview With Jürgen Mossack
A sceptical look at Jürgen Mossack’s WSJ interview
Read more...New Zealand’s FMA, the Breder Suasso Conundrum, Mossack Fonseca, and #panamapapers
A quick look at Breder Suasso, a New Zealand FSP with historic links to disreputable Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts: Chickens Coming Home to Roost
After many warnings were ignored, New Zealand Foreign Trusts are now damaging NZ’s reputation overseas
Read more...HSBC’s Money Laundering Nightmare (2): Mossack Fonseca, a Year in Words and Pictures, March 2015-March 2016
Mossack Fonseca and its trail of street protests: they are in it up to their thighs, and HSBC’s Stuart Gulliver has “no idea”.
Read more...The UK’s Money Laundering Mess (III): LLPs, Secrecy Jurisdictions, PSCs, and a Forthcoming Fiasco
Why the UK’s latest anti money laundering measures don’t look very convincing
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