BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REGIMES UNDER CONSTRUCTION BUT PROGRESS IS PATCHY
January 1st, 2016
A year ago, the Money Laundering Bulletin put forward a broadly upbeat assessment of the prospects for legislation to create effective registers of beneficial ownership in the world's leading financial centres - a must for those attempting to fight money laundering. What progress has been made and has there been backsliding? By many measures there has been some useful progress. The biggest question-mark in creating effective beneficial ownership systems is still the USA, but a lot of the words coming out of the federal government are encouraging, even though – ...
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