Financial Regulatory Forum

    By Tom Brown
    MIAMI, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Bahamas will cooperate with specific investigations into suspected tax evaders and fraudsters but will not change its bank secrecy laws to allow
“fishing” in its offshore finance sector by foreign investigators, the country’s prime minister said on Tuesday. (more…)

By Lisa Jucca and Sven Egenter
ZURICH, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Switzerland expects to be taken off the OECD’s list of tax havens after the country signed the required 12th tax deal on Thursday.

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PARIS, Aug 31 (Reuters) – France obtained the names of 3,000 suspected tax evaders with Swiss bank accounts from banks and unpaid informers, Budget Minister Eric Woerth said on Monday.

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    LUXEMBOURG, July 8 (Reuters) – Luxembourg has been removed from a “grey list” of countries seen by the OECD as lacking financial transparency, Budget Minister Luc Frieden said on Wednesday.
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