During the second business forum called 'gray lists: Check Mate for Panama?', the Panamanian Association of Business Executives unveiled their proposals, action lines and suggestions for improving the conditions of the country and getting off the "gray list" it has recently been included in.

Prensa.com reports that the main conclusions of Apede are "... the need for a ministry or department that deals with international services to coordinate the public-private effort, providing the Superintendency of Securities with legal capacity to request information from banks and to sign the memorandum of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco), create a new money laundering law (including corruption) and regulate industries such as cooperatives, pawn shops and casinos, studying thoroughly the issue of automatic exchange of information, and having greater control over the activity of corporations. "

Source: Prensa.com

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