Transparency International New Zealand welcomes the government’s intent to make it easier to see who owns and controls a company.
Find out MoreThe West can no longer allow its financial systems to enable dirty money flows around the globe. Now is the time for governments to put a full stop to the dirty money that fuels corruption and conflict.
Find out MoreOrganisations around the world are scrambling to quickly identify customers recently added to sanctions lists. They are discovering just how challenging this is through the jungle of opaque ownership.
Find out MoreRules announced this week include the requirement for beneficial ownership registries to tackle money laundering.
Find out MoreIn New Zealand we have much to treasure about our democracy. But worldwide and domestically democracy is under stress.
Find out MoreThere has been slow steady progress on some of New Zealand’s National Integrity System Assessments’ recommendations, but as we emerge from the COVID crisis there is much more to be done.
Find out MoreThe theme of the last Leaders Integrity Forum for 2021 focused on section 14 of the Public Service Act 2020 that explicitly recognizes the role of the public service to support the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi).
Find out MoreA major factor contributing to global environmental degradation that receives relatively little attention is the relative lack of government transparency and accountability for environmental stewardship.
Find out MoreMore than half (62%) of employees and leaders from New Zealand companies believe that standards of corporate integrity have stayed the same or worsened over the last 18 months, and that unethical behaviour was often tolerated when the people involved were senior managers, according to a recent EY survey.
Find out MoreThis issue of the Transparency Times has a particular focus on transparency in government. It highlights areas where the Government, politicians and public servants can be doing a much better job.
Find out MorePolitical financing through donations, anonymous or not, should not purchase influence. The principle of one-person one vote underpins democracy. We need to protect the integrity of this essential democratic process.
Find out MoreFrom the perspective of judging a government’s commitment to openness, they are conveying a signal that no government would choose: that there is no policy coherence between stated intent and reality.
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