Matt Collin

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
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Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
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Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in subsidies.

Our investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences. @journalismfund.bsky.social

Commission takes action to ensure complete and timely transposition of EU directives The European Commission is taking action against several EU Member States that have failed to notify the Commission of measures they have adopted to transpose EU Directives into their national laws. T

The European Commission has opened infringement procedures against Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden after the countries failed to provide comprehensive access to beneficial ownership information ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Sanctioned Russian bankers plowed millions into this South Carolina resort Russian bankers hit by U.S. sanctions bought multimillion-dollar homes in South Carolina’s Palmetto Bluff neighborhood and retail centers in Atlanta, Georgia.

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After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US sanctioned Sergey Khotimskiy and the bank he co-founded, Sovcombank. He finalized the transfer of as much as $43 million in real estate to his ex-wife before the sanctions.

The 7th World Bank / @odi.global / IFS Public Finance Conference starts tomorrow, with keynotes from LSE's Tim Besley and Norwegian University of Life Sciences' Annette Alstadsaeter.

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Oooh thanks for pointing this out!

My post mortem of the US's Corporate Transparency Act
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Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Something seems a bit off about this figure. Seems unlikely that Disney would have made 100% of its revenue from one segment in any given year

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I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

This one is for the kids

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We find that Russian brokers handled transactions worth nearly $6b more than a synthetic group of Russian brokers, following the invasion, highlighting Dubai's role as a haven for sanctions and conflict-driven capital flight

3) More precise estimates of Russian investment post-Ukraine invasion:

To do this, we used published data on real estate brokers and transactions, used a ML name-prediction service to determine which were Russian, and tracked how those purchases evolved after the evasion

2) More evidence that tax compliance for non-residents owning real estate is extremely low: in addition to the direct evidence we present on Norwegian taxpayers, media reports suggest a similar level of evasion for other countries

In total we estimate about $2.7 billion a year goes undeclared

Non-GCC nationals weren't allowed to own real estate in the city until the early 2000s, after which certain areas were desginated as being eligible for freehold ownership

This liberalization led to a surge in the housing supply and an extremely rapid rise in foreign ownership - now approaching 50%

This is an update of earlier work, but I want to focus on a few things we've added to the project:

1) We've used confidential transaction data to go back and time and chart the growth of foreign-owned residential real estate in the city.

🚨New working paper🚨

In this updated work with Annette Alstadsaeter, @bluebery-planterose.com , @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and @andokl.bsky.social , we use leaked data to chart the rise of offshore real estate in Dubai

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I mean COME ON

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Company that sells digital solutions for AML compliance writes a white paper that states that digital solutions for AML compliance are important

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Notably, the UK does the "higher taxes for immigrants" thing (they have a special tax that notionally pays for their healthcare from NHS, even though they also pay all the regular taxes that British citizens pay which fund the NHS), and the UK still has the same populist-nativist problem as the US

I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!

If you're not a fan of the font, you can always pop it into a reader like Instapaper

Hmmm, I'm a little skeptical of assertions of enhanced capacity without any direct evidence of said enhanced capacity

A little strange that they don't look at revenue as well?

Exactly how big is that Chinese money laundering ring? The difficulty of inferring from suspicious transaction reports

I have given in and started a Substack to write about illicit finance, development and data

In my first post, I explain why we should be careful about citing the $312 billion statistic on the size of Chinese money laundering

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Anyone working on Nigeria know where I can find historical election results data (e.g. state senator, governor elections, all candidates with vote shares) going back as far as the 2000s?

"2025 is gonna be my year"

Me in September: