MASSIVE PANDORA PAPERS LEAK REVEALS HOW BO LAWS ARE IMPACTING FILINGS BY OFFSHORE COMPANIES

The huge offshore finance leak unveiled yesterday (October 3) by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its media partners has highlighted the pressures AML reporters face in complying with increasingly tough beneficial ownership transparency laws. Reports generated from 2.94 terabytes of data within 12 million documents leaked to the ICIJ from the confidential records of 14 offshore service providers have been analysed by 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries. And while most of the revelations, which focus on ...


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