Stephen Platt was a guest speaker at a The Institute For Global Financial Integrity in Luxembourg recently. He spoke about the role the international financial services industry has played in facilitating and laundering criminal funds and property.

Of course it is possible if senior financiers and governments have the will and can come together. We must keep up the momentum for change following the financial crisis. Otherwise the recent resurgence of largely unchanged financial institutions, particularly in the US, will continue.

Anne Brasseur, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will speak on Transparency and Integrity in Politics at TIGFI (The Institute for Global Financial Integrity) in Luxembourg on 1 December 2015 http://www.tigfi.org/ If you are unable to attend, follow us for a detailed report, opinions and exchange of ideas.

We believe that Luxembourg is really on the way to becoming both a hub and a force for good in Microfinance and the fight against poverty. In recent years we have seen more and more focus on this objective supported principally by ADA asbl (Appui au Développement Autonome), Luxembourg and the European Investment Bank (EIB).

I found the article about Steve Hilton below in the archives of the Economist but it is not just politics we have to work on:

Communication, Communication, Communication!

Have you heard the ‘saying’ that the ‘English’ or should we say British use to describe the main requirement for success in the property investment world? It’s of course ‘Location, Location, Location’.

The force of "Finance for Good and a Socio Economic Conscience Changing the World". At MFTSE Affairs S.A. our World of Change, World of Learning and World of Action aims to help bring this to the general public and the masses. Watch this space and join us going forward into 2016!

The Top 6 Good-News Stories of 2015 Dec 18, 2015 From Bill Gates Notes: 1. Africa Went a Year Without Any Polio On July 24, Nigeria marked one full year without a single new case of locally acquired polio, the crippling and sometimes fatal disease. It is the last country in Africa to stop transmission of wild polio. This milestone represents a huge victory—one that some experts feared would never come.

Money is the thing that has allowed the human race to progress from the days of barter in the caves. We have seen both banks and government controlled central banks that are corrupt so neither should have the right to control progress and the distribution of wealth to our mind!

Following on from the recent pension freedoms introduced which mean that you are no longer obliged to buy an annuity for your complementary pension; the government have realised that many existing annuity holders feel left out. They therefore propose to create a secondary market so that you could sell your annuity back, probably to other institutions who may want to buy.

Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna, was in Paris with a delegation of professionals of the financial sector on the occasion of a seminar for bankers and fund managers held by LFF.

Lausanne-based business school IMD’s second annual World Talent Report ranks Luxembourg as the leading country in the EU and third worldwide for developing, attracting and retaining talent to satisfy corporate needs.

Luxembourg for Finance will organise a financial mission to Singapore and Sydney on 20-25 February 2016. The mission is led by HE Pierre Gramegna, Minister of Finance and Chairman of Luxembourg for Finance.