29th Mar 2021
We re coming up to yet another long weekend in lockdown, so Netflix is an obvious choice. Here are our picks of series (and one film) to binge.
The Laundromat
There are echoes of Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning 2000 film
Erin Brockovich in his newest film just for Netflix, that of an unlikely and underestimated woman (in this case, the great Meryl Streep) who attempts to take on and bring down an insurance fraud scheme. Based on Jake Bernstein’s book
Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite,
The Laundromat stars Meryl Streep as a widow who investigates a massive insurance-fraud scheme that’s benefiting a network of super-rich people around the world. With a supporting cast that includes Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas and Sharon Stone, you just know you’re in for a treat.
MONEYWEB
app instead?
Registries showing the details of beneficial owners will be open for scrutiny by law enforcement. 00:01
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The US is second only to the Cayman Islands as the most secretive jurisdiction in the world, according to the 2020 Financial Secrecy Index. Image: Bloomberg
The US Senate has signed the death warrant for anonymous companies with its recent passing of the Corporate Transparency Act, by a veto-proof majority of 84 to 13.
The bill â which will have to be signed by the US president for it to pass into law â was tacked onto the National Defence Authorisation Act. It is expected to be passed before the end of the year.