As the open data community gathers in Madrid, an article by Thomson Reuters highlights how far we have to go to achieve greater transparency around the real, beneficial owners of companies.
How will Brexit effect new EU transparency proposals?
Today, Transparency International (TI) has released a detailed and powerful report looking at how well the G20 countries are living up to the promises they made a year ago to tackle corporate ownership secrecy.
On Tuesday a former futures trader was arrested in a suburban semi-detached house in London. Navinder Singh Sarao has been accused by the U.S. authorities of being in part responsible for the 2010 "flash crash" where the U.S. Dow Jones index plunged 600 points in less than five minutes.
But problem won't be solved by transparency in just one country; Global Witness is campaigning for other places to adopt similar registers.
HSBC findings don't surprise us. What will it take for things to change?
HSBC has been in the spotlight following reports alleging the bank aided tax evasion on a global scale. The extent and nature of the allegations have caused HSBC to become the poster child for banks behaving badly.
Over the weekend the opposition Labour party announced plans to force the UK's offshore financial centres to end anonymous company ownership if it forms a government in May.