Time for action on financial transparency

Commentary feature. Cecilia Wikstroem is a Liberal Swedish MEP. Koen Roovers works in Brussels for the Financial Transparency Coalition, an international network of not-for-profit groups which advocates transparency and accountability in the global financial system. They sought to influence a vote in the European Parliament on the 13 February 2014 on the European Commission's Proposal for a directive ... on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing.

ESO: Background information: Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing http://www.europeansources.info/record/proposal-for-a-directive-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-on-the-prevention-of-the-use-of-the-financial-system-for-the-purpose-of-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing/

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