UBO public access ruling reflects morality debate

The EU court ruling ending public access to European ultimate beneficial owner registries lays bare a long-standing political-legal dispute in society over what sorts of interests should be paramount: jurisprudence or morality. As Luxembourg awaits a solution on restoring access for professionals, Investment Officer spoke to a number of legal specialists about the case.

When the monetary system's neutrality is threatened

You may have noticed that when Whatsapp starts a new chat, it displays a message that “end-to-end encryption” is being used. This means that the content of the messages cannot be read by anyone other than the people in the chat (though some question the extent of this). Facebook, the owner of Whatsapp, knows something about who you were in contact with and when, but not (necessarily) what it was about.