The data visualisation is pretty, but a learning process would have been better -- talking with people who understand the underlying businesses & testing intuitions about the conclusions that can be drawn from looking at the country by country data.....https://twitter.com/TI_EU/status/1055371550264881152 …
Credit Agricole also has profits in Cayman islands but no staff. The report says the staff and taxes are in the US.https://twitter.com/TI_EU/status/1055404237641932800 …
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BBVA in Ireland also had higher profits than turnover. What does this mean? I don't know. But i guess we are supposed to think its dodgy profit shifting? BBVA is shutting up shop in Ireland so perhaps it wasn't such a money pot.https://twitter.com/TI_EU/status/1055726486777409537 …
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Did you know... The 20 largest banks in Europe declared a turnover of 284 m Euros in Bermuda..... or to put it differently HSBC owns a large bank in Bermuda.pic.twitter.com/btDJyAWOXR
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These headline feel like they are pulling our chain. Are there other useful conclusions that can come from the bank CbC data? Maybe. This tool uses data for 2015 (Because Oxfam had already put it on a spreadsheet). 2016 and 2017 data is available but has not been compiled.
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I am wary of the easy rallying cry "we need more data"...when the data that has been already been reported has not seriously been looked at to test if it does what people hoped it would.
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On extractive sectors, there has been significant effort to try to make use of data disclosed. What has been learnt is..... simple ratios may show 'red flags but always need to look for plausible explanations & not jump to conclusions
@Global_Witness :https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/oil-gas-and-mining/finding-missing-millions/#chapter-2/section-0 …Show this thread
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-- this seems to be largely driven by RBS which owns Ulster Bank... clobbered by the financial crisis had massive losses (with apparent profitability driven by loan loss write-backs in 2015