.Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is looking for a data engineer who wants the opportunity to work on challenging projects. You’ll be working on a new project as part of our product development team and will help to design and build a next generation data analysis tool

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📢 Don't miss out! Join our live webinar on 'Unlocking Complex UBO Investigations' on May 15th at 9AM (BST). Click to register now👇 hubs.ly/Q02tL9KZ0

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The European Parliament blocked the Commission's proposal to remove the UAE (and others) from its own list of AML high risk countries. Huge majority to support more scrutiny

Published today: Check out our scoping report on #BeneficialOwnership #transparency in the #Philippines . The report will help inform the next stage of reforms and technical assistance work within the Opening Extractives programme: openownership.org/en/publication… EITI International BHP Foundation

Exclusive: In face of intensive lobbying by pension/insurance funds, Gove has won partial victory on leasehold reform

PM has now overruled HMT. £250 cap on ground rents will be announced, with a 20 year* transition period to peppercorn

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thetimes.co.uk/article/more-g…

Interesting context to this briefing: Gove recently met a lot of these funds.

Government was pretty shocked to learn that a lot of them had made sizeable investments in ground rent portfolios post-2019, *after* the Tories had made a manifesto commitment to peppercorn rates

EXCLUSIVE sewage scandal update! You probably thought you knew the story by now. I’m sorry to say it’s worse than that. Four whistleblowers told me some shocking stuff…. Read on….

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Explore our latest policy briefs for insights on #BeneficialOwnership in investment funds and listed companies. Uncover key questions on reporting requirements, visibility, and oversight.
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Sub-Saharan Africa could produce almost $2 trillion of metals required for the energy transition by 2050, according to the IMF trib.al/UGEU4Wp

We are delighted to announce the return of the King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence. Running from 21 May to 25 May, this free five-day series of events will showcase the latest advances in AI and their impact on society. Register now 👇
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New: MEPs have launched a bid to keep the United Arab Emirates on the EU’s list of high-risk jurisdictions from a financial crime perspective, citing the country’s major role in transnational money-laundering and sanctions-busting schemes
moneylaundering.com/news/eu-lawmak…

The National Risk Assessment On Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing of Legal Persons and Legal Arrangements report published by the Business Registration Service shows that 10,733 registered private firms were reported for money laundering in 2022.
businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/10-…

#Opportunity
We are looking for a Data and Technology Lead to join our team.
The Data and Technology Lead will be responsible for managing technical operations and research support.

Follow the link to learn more: globaldatabarometer.org/jobs-2/

📅Deadline to apply: 29 April, 2024

If Thames Water is taken into public ownership, it must not be the same old story of privatised gains and the public bearing the costs.

Our paper from Ewan McGaughey shows how the public can get value for money 👇

common-wealth.org/publications/r…

❓Did you know that 45% of our offshore wind assets are publicly owned?

But here's the catch: not by the UK.

The top 5 countries that are leading the green transition all have their own, publicly owned energy companies. Why can't we?

Wow Benjamin Angel just said that the world needs automatic information exchange of registers of beneficial ownership

Beneficial ownership disclosure is a key component of the new Tax Index, that Fair Tax Foundation and CSR Europe have launched today twitter.com/FairTaxMark/st…

UK will not ‘turn on’ post-Brexit checks of EU goods for fear of border delays on.ft.com/3vUsnJ5

Privatisation has allowed for the ownership of Royal Mail to become dominated by institutional investors, including its largest shareholder Vesa Equity, owned by billionaire Daniel Křetínský.

EXC: The secret Whitehall blueprint for Thames Water’s renationalisation:
- bulk of £15.6bn debts go on state balance sheet
- some lenders to lose 35-40% of £
- new public corporation takes ownership, based on Crossrail
- equity wiped out

By Anna Isaac

theguardian.com/business/2024/…