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Not all tax havens come with fancy resorts and sun-drenched beaches. Westend61/Getty Images

June 25, 2021

What are tax havens? The answer explains why the G-7 effort to end them is unlikely to succeed

Beverly Moran, Vanderbilt University

The G-7 wants to set a minimum global tax rate, which would make it harder for countries to act as tax havens.

Trading for almost 150 years in Switzerland, BSI was brought down by the recklessness of its overseas operations. Karl Mathis/EPA

August 13, 2018

How a Swiss bank was toppled by a financial scandal in Malaysia – and what can be learned from it

Salvatore Cantale, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and Ivy Buche, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)

The world’s largest financial scandal has toppled a government, threatened a currency, and revealed deeply problematic failings at a buccaneering Swiss bank.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has received millions of dollars in repatriated funds. Esther Addy/Flickr

July 18, 2018

Nigeria’s plan to redistribute recovered corruption money needs a rethink

Tolu Olarewaju, Staffordshire University

Millions of dollars have been repatriated to Nigeria by Swiss authorities, but there are better ways to spend it than what the government is proposing.

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February 11, 2015

HSBC scandal: the UK’s strict rules on bank customers were abandoned at the border

Claire McCafferty, Edinburgh Napier University

The UK is no slouch when it comes to protecting against financial crime. It follows the relevant European directives, which require that banks have sufficient anti-money-laundering controls in place to…

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