A haven of banking secrecy for decades, Switzerland has now become a land of raw materials trading. Most of the private hydrocarbon trading giants have set up their headquarters in Geneva....

Edward Snowden’s bombshell revelations about mass U.S. government surveillance set off alarms about digital security across the globe. Once of interest mainly to spies and IT security...

While covertly operating within the underworld as a money launderer, I had the occasion to deal with some of the most notorious money launderers in the world. I’ll never forget a...

A company tied to Lebanon’s central bank governor bought a stake in his son’s company, then sold it to a major Lebanese bank that he regulates, OCCRP and Daraj.com have learned. These...

Move over, January: at least two other months have greater predictive power of stock-market returns than you do. January has a reputation as being able to forecast the U.S. market’s...

Traditional banks are now taking the plunge and coming out with crypto-related services. The shift coincides with bitcoin’s price hitting all-time highs in December. Banks may have been...

A majority of Europe’s largest banks are relying on tax havens to stash their profits, despite the fact that in some cases, these firms don’t have a single employee working where these...

Even if the pace at hich regulations are drafted seems to be slowing down, at least at the EU-level, regulations in general are still trending toward bullish proliferation. In the...

In 2015, Nick Molnar was living with his parents in Sydney, Australia, and selling jewelry from a desktop computer in his childhood bedroom. Hocking everything from $250 Seiko watches to...