21/12/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Wednesday 20 December, member states’ ambassadors to the EU, meeting at Coreper, confirmed the inter-institutional agreement reached a week earlier on the fifth anti-money laundering directive (see EUROPE 11927). Amongst other things, the text introduces transparency on beneficial owners (public for companies and to individuals with a legitimate interest for trusts). Other measures have been brought in to cut off the financing of terrorism, for instance,...