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Tax havens are the banks' “get out of regulation free” card. Whenever politicians threatens to regulate banks and other corporations, they respond with “we’ll go offshore.”

How is it that an institution with an explicit mandate to promote development in the global South is financing companies who purposefully weasel out of paying revenues to the world's poorest governments, while extracting their natural resources and disrupting the livelihoods of local communities?

BBC news report on implementation of new guidelines on Tax Havens

Coverage of Mark Thomas Tearing shreds off the labour government and the banks whilst making a hell of a lot of sense at the Put People First rally in London, 28th March 2009.

MEP Monica Frassoni lambasts Gordon Brown in the European Parliament, telling him 'nice speech, but what are you ready to do?'

In our guided tour of the financial district of Saint Helier, Jersey, we set out to make the link between secrecy jurisdictions and global crisis.

In our guided tour of the financial district of Saint Helier, Jersey, we set out to make the link between secrecy jurisdictions and global crisis.

Interview on Channel 4 Jersey as a tax haven with John Christensen, Mark Thomas - and as added bonus, the chief minister walking out of the interview!

Welcome to a world without rules: How tax havens and secrecy contributed to the financial crisis.

Tax havens and financial secrecy have driven the corrupt behaviour underlying the global financial crisis. Any moves to reform the financial system need to tackle these issues head on.