But then I looked at the report of the OECD on Progress in Financial Transparency.
Qian Hu reaches out just as hard to investors, winning a number of awards for financial transparency.
Donors in Paris will be eager to hear about Karzai's plans to combat corruption and improve financial transparency, he said.
Since then Vietnam has announced a program of "people's mastery at the grassroots level" designed to improve governance by improving financial transparency.
The government has already introduced some new measures that would help, such as rules to ensure more financial transparency and stronger shareholder rights.
Mr Powell said that by improving financial transparency, OSCE member states could ensure terrorists would be unable to raise, launder and move their funds.
Until now, France and Slovenia were the only two countries to have opted out from this measure of financial transparency, already implemented at a European level.
Currency fluctuation, a lack of financial transparency, currency control regulation, and other characteristics of many emerging markets keep the less informed investor away from these markets.
Memos leaked earlier this year suggest there are serious differences among Vatican officials over how far to go in ensuring financial transparency, according to media reports.
There I explain why I think bloggers owe their readers a high level of financial transparency, and then disclose all of my sources of income since 2008.
In 2005, Mr. Foster, a retired engineer for gum-maker Wrigley, moved to Quartzsite from Chicago and successfully ran for mayor in 2010 on a platform of financial transparency.
Third, press for greater financial transparency from governments of developing countries so that the citizens of these countries can hold their governments to account for the money they spend.
Above all, the U.S. remains biased toward financial transparency.
In the mid-1990s, the European Commission was pressing the French to separate track and rail operations in the interests of greater financial transparency, and also to open the way for some competition on the tracks.
Mahathir has always argued that Asia's economic troubles were caused by fickle international investors (or, as he called them recently, "funnymentals, intelligent humans behaving like silly animals in a herd"), not a lack of financial transparency and accountability and certainly not because of a lack of democracy.
"Some value-destroying firms and even banks, themselves, can and should fail through the process of improving financial market transparency and liquidity, " he said in a presentation last month.
As a growing number of independent observers note, this institution is ultimately in the lending business, which is why useful reforms such as financial system transparency, the depoliticizing of banks, etc.
The confidence of all users of financial statements in the transparency and integrity of financial reporting is critically important to the effective functioning of capital markets, efficient capital allocation, global financial stability and sound economic growth.
The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom, which is a joint project of The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, ranked 183 countries based on 10 measures that evaluate such things as openness to trade and investment, government size, fiscal soundness, business and labor regulation, property rights, corruption, monetary stability and financial competition and transparency.
As a result of the investigation, Italian authorities have pressured the city-state to enforce EU financial regulations and boost transparency.
Now Switzerland is taking another step toward full transparency in financial and banking rules by launching two consultation drafts.
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By and large, they find full transparency around financial performance and success or failure in meeting their goals creates a more engaged and motivated team.
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Next, these reforms would bring new transparency to financial dealings.
In a time when transparency in financial services seems in short supply, having this information as you do your due diligence could make a significant impact on your financial well- being.
Even the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is calling for more transparency: on Thursday it announced guidelines it was setting for financial policy makers that included increased transparency among banks.
By way of contrast, American and European banks were held up as shining examples of financial strength, stability and transparency.
We must also encourage international financial institutions to improve their transparency in their own dealings and in those with their clients.
Number two, reform would bring new transparency to many financial markets.
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The possibility, and even likelihood, that strengthened discipline and transparency in our financial markets can ultimately bring about desired reforms in emerging market economies (such as those of China and Russia) cannot be sufficiently underscored.
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Who wants to participate in a financial system that lacks fairness and transparency?
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