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Offshore Financial Centres: a Threat to Global
Financial Stability?. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Feb 2009, Pages: 60
Offshore Financial Centres (OFCs) play an important
role in the modern world of finance, due to the
variety of services and convenient conditions they
offer to business circles. At the same time
attractive features of OFCs are often abused for tax
avoidance, money laundering or terrorism financing.
Other problematic areas - poor regulation and
supervision of financial sector and impediments in
international cooperation with other jurisdictions -
are still present in many of OFCs and cause serious
anxiety within the international community. The
purpose of the work is to assess risks posed by OFCs
and answer the question whether they represent a
threat to the stability of the world financial
order. For this end, the work examines benefits and
particular areas of concerns associated with OFCs as
well as position of relevant international
organisations and initiatives thereof. The work
shall be useful for lawyers, financiers,
representatives of international organizations and
law enforcement agencies, or anyone else who may be
interested in OFCs.
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