Vulture funds, funds that buy up the debt of sovereign countries at a discount in the hope of making significant profits, have caused considerable problems to a number of highly indebted countries. The Commonwealth Secretariat’s Legal Debt Clinic...
The Commonwealth has been in the forefront of international efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, particularly through supporting its developing member countries to implement comprehensive Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and...
Since their inception in the mid-1980s, citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programmes are often accused of commodifying citizenship, unfairly favouring the very wealthy, and facilitating money laundering, tax evasion and other criminal activities. This...
Almost all of world trade relies on access to trade finance. Yet in many countries there is a lack of domestic capacity in the financial sector to support trade, and also a lack of access to the international financial system. The impact of these...
