Robert S. Fink and Bryan C. Skarlatos, partners at Kostelanetz & Fink, write that while there is nothing inherently illegal about having a foreign bank account in a bank-secrecy jurisdiction, the ...

The vice president, who is a member of the Philippine Bar, and her lawyer husband, Atty. Mans Carpio and their whole battalion of lawyers, should study the Bank Secrecy Law very punctiliously and ...

When you open a bank account in a country you don't otherwise live or do business in, you engage in offshore banking.

MANILA, Philippines — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is backing proposals to amendment the country’s bank secrecy law to strengthen supervision of bank accounts and align with international ...

A high-stakes legal battle is unfolding in a New York federal court that pits the age-old tradition of Swiss banking secrecy against the bedrock principles of American judicial transparency, with ...

ZURICH/BERNE (Reuters) - Switzerland fought on Thursday to defend a landmark decision allowing bank giant UBS to transfer client data to the United States in a tax settlement that experts say will ...

House Committee on Justice Chairperson Gerville Luistro said the impeachment process is an accountability mechanism and is an ...

Among this week’s biggest stories is the filing of a criminal complaint by lawyer Manases Reyes Carpio, the husband of Vice President Sara Duterte, against officials led by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ...

ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss prosecutors are seeking a court ruling that would make it easier to convict whistleblowers for breaking the country's bank secrecy law wherever they are in the world, ...