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Brazil’s CBDC Pilot Reportedly Delayed to 2025 Due to Lack of Privacy Safeguards: Details
Brazil has reportedly postponed the pilot of its Drex CDBC to 2025 as the central bank feels, blockchain privacy solutions are insufficient. The regulator is looking to prevent financial inconvenience to Brazilian nationals. The CBDC is expected to finetune the country’s financial compliance, banking, and tax secrecy regulations.
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El Salvador’s Secrecy Around BTC-Related Info Raises Suspicions, Details Here
El Salvador’s state bank BANDESAL has refused to share details of the country’s current BTC holdings. The information was requested by ALAC El Salvador — a non-governmental anti-corruption bureau. El Salvador’s secrecy around its BTC possessions could be a way to shield its government from criticism for exposing its public to major financia...
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11 Indians Get Swiss Notices In Process To Share Banking Details
As Switzerland strives hard to re-establish its global financial centre position after clamping down on secrecy walls of its banks, there has been a significant surge in the number of cases where it has initiated process to share information on Indians with Swiss bank accounts and shot off letters to about a dozen such individuals last week itself.
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Indians' Money In Swiss Banks Now Nearly Half At Rs 4,500 Crore
Money parked by Indians in Switzerland's banks nearly halved to 676 Swiss francs (about Rs 4,500 crore) in 2016 to hit a record low amid a continuing clampdown on the suspected black money stashed behind their famed secrecy walls.
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Secrecy Must For Automatic Information Exchange: Swiss Banks To India
On Friday, the Swiss Federal Council ratified the AEOI with India and 40 other jurisdictions to facilitate immediate sharing of details about suspected black money.
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Switzerland Eyes Exchanging Banking Information With 21 More Countries
Switzerland, which has been working to end its years-long practice of banking secrecy, said Thursday it aimed to dramatically increase the number of countries it cooperates with towards international fiscal transparency.
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PM Narendra Modi Asks G20 to Curb Excessive Banking Secrecy
Making it clear that India has no tolerance towards black money, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for an end to "excessive banking secrecy" in some countries so that ill-gotten money stashed away abroad can return to their country of origin.
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Switzerland Discloses More Information on 2 Indians Named Earlier
Continuing to shed its famed banking secrecy veil, Switzerland today made public more names about which it has been approached from abroad for information, even as it published fresh gazette notifications about two Indians - Sayed Mohammed Masood and Chand Kauser Mohammed Masood.
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Why I Leaked The HSBC Data
Herve Falciani, whistle-blower, on his plans to assist India.
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Lying French Tax Fraud Witness Pierre Condamin-Gerbier Convicted in Switzerland
A man who acknowledged lying when he served as a key witness in a major French tax fraud investigation was sentenced to a two-year suspended prison term in Switzerland Friday.
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Brazil’s CBDC Pilot Reportedly Delayed to 2025 Due to Lack of Privacy Safeguards: Details
Brazil has reportedly postponed the pilot of its Drex CDBC to 2025 as the central bank feels, blockchain privacy solutions are insufficient. The regulator is looking to prevent financial inconvenience to Brazilian nationals. The CBDC is expected to finetune the country’s financial compliance, banking, and tax secrecy regulations.
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El Salvador’s Secrecy Around BTC-Related Info Raises Suspicions, Details Here
El Salvador’s state bank BANDESAL has refused to share details of the country’s current BTC holdings. The information was requested by ALAC El Salvador — a non-governmental anti-corruption bureau. El Salvador’s secrecy around its BTC possessions could be a way to shield its government from criticism for exposing its public to major financia...
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11 Indians Get Swiss Notices In Process To Share Banking Details
As Switzerland strives hard to re-establish its global financial centre position after clamping down on secrecy walls of its banks, there has been a significant surge in the number of cases where it has initiated process to share information on Indians with Swiss bank accounts and shot off letters to about a dozen such individuals last week itself.
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Indians' Money In Swiss Banks Now Nearly Half At Rs 4,500 Crore
Money parked by Indians in Switzerland's banks nearly halved to 676 Swiss francs (about Rs 4,500 crore) in 2016 to hit a record low amid a continuing clampdown on the suspected black money stashed behind their famed secrecy walls.
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Secrecy Must For Automatic Information Exchange: Swiss Banks To India
On Friday, the Swiss Federal Council ratified the AEOI with India and 40 other jurisdictions to facilitate immediate sharing of details about suspected black money.
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Switzerland Eyes Exchanging Banking Information With 21 More Countries
Switzerland, which has been working to end its years-long practice of banking secrecy, said Thursday it aimed to dramatically increase the number of countries it cooperates with towards international fiscal transparency.
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PM Narendra Modi Asks G20 to Curb Excessive Banking Secrecy
Making it clear that India has no tolerance towards black money, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for an end to "excessive banking secrecy" in some countries so that ill-gotten money stashed away abroad can return to their country of origin.
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Switzerland Discloses More Information on 2 Indians Named Earlier
Continuing to shed its famed banking secrecy veil, Switzerland today made public more names about which it has been approached from abroad for information, even as it published fresh gazette notifications about two Indians - Sayed Mohammed Masood and Chand Kauser Mohammed Masood.
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Why I Leaked The HSBC Data
Herve Falciani, whistle-blower, on his plans to assist India.
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Lying French Tax Fraud Witness Pierre Condamin-Gerbier Convicted in Switzerland
A man who acknowledged lying when he served as a key witness in a major French tax fraud investigation was sentenced to a two-year suspended prison term in Switzerland Friday.
