Switzerland’s finance minister has proposed new rules that force companies to disclose who owns them. It could be a boon for the fight against money laundering in Europe, where Switzerland lags behind it’s peer countries’ regulations. The World’s Marco Werman talks to Moyara Ruehsen at the Middlebury Institute in Monterey about what the law would mean if passed.
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