The offshore firm at the heart of the Panama Papers leak did not know who as many as three-quarters of its clients were at the time of the exposé, according to an investigation. The Panamanian company Mossack Fonseca made frantic efforts to discover...
Leaders of British overseas territories are to hold two days of showdown talks with ministers in an attempt to reverse the UK government’s decision to end secrecy for offshore tax havens. An unexpected vote by MPs at the beginning of May to impose p...
The Cayman Islands government said it was considering legal action in an attempt to stop the UK making the overseas territory open up its company ownership registers to public scrutiny, a day after MPs agreed they should do so by the end of 2020. Al...
Margaret Hodge and Andrew Mitchell were quick to recognise they could succeed in forcing the government to act on financial secrecy in the overseas territories if they joined forces. The veteran backbenchers have known each other since the 1980s and...