On Monday, people everywhere will be able to see for themselves which politicians, celebrities and business executives allegedly kept secret shell companies that were exposed in the Panama Papers. A Google-like searchable database is expected to go live at 2 p.m. ET, detailing ties between 368,000 people and 300,000 offshore entities. It's being released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The whistleblower behind the Panama Papers broke their silence on Friday to explain in detail how the injustices of offshore tax havens drove them to the biggest data leak in history. The source, whose identity and gender remain a secret, denied being a spy. “For the record, I do not work for any government or intelligence agency, directly or as a contractor, and I never have. My viewpoint is entirely my own.”

The Obama administration is issuing a long-delayed rule requiring the financial industry to identify the real owners of companies and proposing a bill that would require companies to report the identities of their owners to the federal government, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The Customer Due Diligence (CDD) rule, in the works since 2012, and the proposed legislation are meant to hinder criminals from using shell companies to hide ownership and launder money...

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is about to unleash a huge data dump about how some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people hide their cash. The group has already released a host of information regarding how major figures in politics and business store their wealth in tax havens. On Wednesday the ICIJ said in an email that on May 9 it would "publish what will likely be the largest-ever release...

The wealth that Hillary Clinton and her husband have accumulated through their political connections is exactly what a growing number of voters are rebelling against. Can her campaign survive the overthrow of the American kleptocracy? By Will Bunch.

No, they don’t protect the assets of vulnerable people.

U.S. officials revealed to NBC News that they have taken part in two global meetings about the Panama Papers to plan how to use the huge trove of leaked documents to catch criminals — and urged Americans to come clean now before illegal activity is discovered. Last week's discussions in Paris and Washington between IRS and Treasury officials and their counterparts from around the world are the first evidence of U.S. involvement in the growing...

Ed Miliband has said the revelations in the leaked Panama Papers provide evidence that wealth does not trickle down in society – rather, it gets “stashed”. Speaking two weeks after the huge cache of documents were revealed, detailing the tax affairs of thousands of wealthy individuals worldwide, the former Labour leader said the leak proved the common assumption about capitalism to be false. 

A long life in politics has allowed Bill and Hillary Clinton to accumulate relationships to wealthy people and businesses across the globe. McClatchy found multiple connections to the Clintons in the Panama papers database. By Anita Kumar, Marisa Taylor and Kevin G. Hall.

Swiss federal prosecutors searched a warehouse in the Geneva tax-free zone in connection with alleged looted art on Friday morning, according to two Swiss newspapers, "Der Bund" and "Le Temps." The search targeted the Rodolphe Haller Company, a firm that stores thousands of artworks in the Geneva Freeports, a duty-free warehouse area. Among the works is said to be a masterpiece by Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani finished in 1918...

Alleged Nazi-looted artworks were discovered through the Panama Papers revelations. Among the works hiding at the Geneva Freeports was a masterpiece by Modigliani - and many more lost treasures could be found. By Sabine Oelze.

In a reversal, Panama has agreed to join global tax reporting standards. The move comes shortly after European powers threatened a crackdown on tax havens.

Vladimir Putin has said the revelations from the Panama Papers published in the Guardian concerning an old friend of his are true. However, the Russian president went on to say that the files demonstrate no illegal activity on his part. The papers link the cellist Sergei Roldugin to a number of offshore companies with cash flows of up to $2bn. During his annual phone-in with the nation, Putin discussed the documents with an irate caller who...

A deeper insight into Japanese businessmen’s offshore deals. By Scilla Alecci and Alessia Cerantola.

The story of the moment lacks a lead actor from the top rank of the journalism establishment. Is that a sign of things to come? By Nicholas Lemann.

Panama leaks have passed with little fanfare in a country where corruption is seen as part of the fabric of life

The Panama papers show that rich people aren’t even rational: they send their money on holiday to the Caymans, and live in perpetual rain in Britain. By Frankie Boyle.

Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he'd be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information that is shaking political regimes around the world. Birkenfeld, an American citizen, was a banker working at UBS in Switzerland when he approached the U.S. government with information on massive...

Bradley Birkenfeld, a former UBS banker who blew the whistle on tax dodges, told CNBC he believes the CIA may be behind the Panama Papers leak.

The Canada Revenue Agency has formally asked the CBC to hand over offshore tax-haven data from the massive Panama Papers leak, but the news organization is refusing. The commissioner of the agency, Andrew Treusch, sent an email on Friday to the president of the CBC asking for the data, saying the agency wants to begin work immediately on reviewing the information. CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson said the corporation rebuffed a similar request from...