The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has completed an assessment of the implementation of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing standards in Hong Kong, it was announced this week.
A High Court judge has ruled that the Guardian newspaper can file evidence which claims to show that UK retail giant Tesco set up a series of offshore holding companies to avoid paying UK corporate tax.
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy announced on Tuesday that ministers attending trade talks in Geneva had failed in their efforts to agree on blueprint agreements in agriculture and industrial products.