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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 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, 2023Banks 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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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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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, 2011We 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
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Banking Secrecy, Regulation and Supervision
2015In 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, 2004Addresses 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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2019
Abstract This section is about Article 40 of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), dealing with Bank ...
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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
2015It 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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Central Bank Secrecy and Money Surprises: International Evidence
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1992The information value of central bank announcements of projected future money growth is shown to depend both on the accuracy of the announcements and the extent to which the announcements themselves are anticipated by the public. The authors construct a new data set on internal Federal Reserve money projections. These projections, which are kept secret
Hutchison, Michael, Judd, John P
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Offshore Banking Secrecy: Myth or Reality?
Journal of Money Laundering Control, 1998There is no such thing as absolute bank secrecy, even in the offshore environment. Bank secrecy is a matter of degree, and ultimately is a myth rather than an absolute reality. A convenient typology is: ‘no‐tax’ havens, eg the Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman and Turks and Caicos Islands; and Mow‐tax' havens, which include most of the other countries in the ...
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