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HSBC India mired in controversies after the Swiss Leaks

24 March 2015 - by Sushovan Dhar

Following the Swiss Leaks implicating HSBC of actively promoting money-laundering and tax-heaven, the bank has hit the global headlines, but for wrong reasons. The trove of secret documents from HSBC Geneva reveals names of account holders and (...)
Madame Lagarde, Herr Junker, you do not adhere to your own commitments!

5 March 2015 - by Renaud Vivien

A few short days before the general election in Greece, the IMF and the European Commission are doing it again. Warning against any measure of debt relief, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, stated that ‘a (...)
Banks versus the People: The Underside of a Rigged Game!

12 January 2013 - by Eric Toussaint

The first three parts of the series ’Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game!’ published in 2012, have been collected together in this one document. This series is to be continued during January 2013. Part 1 : 2007-2012: Six years (...)
Series: Banks versus the People: The Underside of a Rigged Game! (Part 2)

The ECB and the Fed at the service of the major private banks

10 December 2012 - by Eric Toussaint

Part One of this series “2007-2012: Six years that shook the banking world” was published on 2nd December, 2012. The actions of the European Central Bank and the “Fed” Beginning in June 2011, the European banks entered a highly critical phase. (...)
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (3/7)

The ECB, ever loyal to private interests

16 September 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the (...)