Participant to speak at OffshoreAlert Conference

From Offshore Alert

The offshore financial world has been rocked over the last few days by the publication of news stories around the world arising from confidential information on a 260 gigabyte hard drive that was leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The ICIJ and collaborating news organizations sifted through what the ICIJ described as “a trove of 2.5 million secret files” that, among other things, contained the names of thousands of previously-anonymous offshore account holders and details of offshore firms that provided services to them.

One of the journalists who participated in the investigation – David Leigh, Investigations Executive Editor of Britain’s The Guardian newspaper – will discuss the project in-depth at next month’s OffshoreAlert Conference in Miami Beach, Florida.

OffshoreAlert has also added a session on ‘The Cyprus Crisis: Could it Happen in Other OFCs’, which will analyze what caused Cyprus’ economic problems, the impact on its offshore clients, and whether the debacle could occur in other jurisdictions.

The OffshoreAlert Conference aims to provide attendees with information about international finance that will help them make better-informed decisions, whether they are clients, providers of investigators of financial products and services.

The OffshoreAlert Conference will take place at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida, on May 5-7, 2013.

Full information about the event can be viewed at www.offshorealertconference.com.