New Orleans ACORN International’s global Remittance Justice Campaign (www.remittancejustice.og) continues to confront new, amazing, and mysterious challenges as ACORN Canada pushes forward in Ottawa and British Columbia. In a meeting won by actions at the ACORN Canada convention six weeks ago with top officials of the Finance Ministry our negotiators efforts to discuss the need …
Category: Remittances
A Corrupt Credit Business Model Travels to Chile and Brazil
New Orleans Cred it card scams are the bad penny perfected in the United States that is turning up now elsewhere in the world. These practices are not the foul play of bad actors as predatory lenders always claim, but intrinsic elements of corrupt, exploitive business models. The economic success stories in Brazil and Chile …
Disclosing Corporate Payments to Foreign Governments on Remittances
New Orleans There is some low-grade whining about some of the amendments that were added to the Dodd-Frank legislation last year which was intended to hold financial institutions more accountable. Congressman Barney Frank successfully added an amendment requiring companies to disclose payments to foreign governments around oil and natural gas extraction. Other companies are required …