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FORMATION OF BANKING ACTIVITY IN UKRAINE AND BANKING SECRECY

Legal Bulletin, 2022
The article is devoted to the study of the history of the institution of banking secrecy. It is established that in the early stages of development of the banking system the regulation of the processes of banking institutions was carried out by the first person of the state (emperor) and the highest legislative body by issuing regulations. It is proved
V.V. Koroleva, L.V. Liashenko
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Bank Secrecy

Journal of Financial Crime, 2000
Bank secrecy and how it facilitates multiple opportunities for money laundering and various other criminal activities are matters in which governments must be interested. These matters have recently been the subject of a study carried out on behalf of the United Nations entitled Financial Havens, Banking Secrecy and Money Laundering.
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Bank Secrecy (A Comparative Study)

Al-Kitab Journal for Human Sciences, 2023
Banks usually work to protect the secrets of their customers in order to protect the credit and it is not permissible to disclose these secrets but only in certain cases for the benefit of the credit or in exceptional cases estimated by law. The present study sheds light on the trends of comparative legislation on the protection of bank secrecy between
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The End of Bank Secrecy?

CFA Institute Magazine, 2013
For decades, Swiss banks catered to the rich, offering numbered bank accounts and other discreet services protected by the most stringent bank-secrecy laws in the world. For the past four years, however, the U.S. government has undertaken aggressive efforts to pierce those historic laws, exposing a haven for international tax evasion that catered to ...
Ian Comisky, Matthew Lee
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Swiss banking secrecy: the stock market evidence

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2011
We examine the stock price reactions of four Swiss banks to negotiations between Switzerland and the European Union and between Switzerland and the United States to (i) obtain an estimate of the value of banking secrecy to Swiss banks, and (ii) distinguish between tax evasion and genuine privacy concerns as sources of that value. We find that the value
Delaloye, Francois-Xavier, Habib, Michel A, Ziegler, Alexandre   +2 more
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Banking Secrecy, Regulation and Supervision

2015
In Chapter 1 we analyzed the economics and politics of banking secrecy, highlighting the key role of financial regulation design and consequently focusing our attention on policymakers’ choices.
Donato Masciandaro, Olga Balakina
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Banking secrecy and money laundering

Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2004
Addresses the conflict between banking secrecy and the fight against money laundering. Looks back at the origins of banking secrecy in the Swiss havens for German Jews’ money in the 1930s, and at the various reasons given justifying secrecy. Shows how banking secrecy has been lifted in response to the perceived need to prevent its being used as a money
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Bank Secrecy

2019
Abstract This section is about Article 40 of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), dealing with Bank ...
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Banking Secrecy: Economics and Politics

2015
It is only in recent times that economic analysis has focused on the financial aspects of illegal activities, and it is a topic which has thus far been completely absent in the academic literature. The basic theoretical reason lies in the absence of special treatment of monetary and financial aspects within the traditional Becker model.
Donato Masciandaro, Olga Balakina
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