UPDATE 3-OECD takes four tax havens off blacklist
*OECD "black" list empty, countries moved to "grey" list
*OECD wants to see progress from tax havens
(adds comments from Swiss foreign minister)
By Brian Love
PARIS, April 7 (Reuters) - Four finance centres blacklisted last Thursday in a renewed crackdown on tax fraud were taken off the list on Tuesday after committing to international standards on bank information disclosure.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said it was moving Uruguay, Costa Rica, Malaysia and the Philippines to a grey list of offenders who say they will put things right, a long list that includes major finance centres such as Switzerland.
The OECD published three lists last Thursday in response to a request from world leaders looking for ways to tighten up on financial regulation at a G20 summit in London the same day.
It put just four on the blacklist, more than 30 on the grey list of repentants and about 40 countries on a white list of places where the authorities are considered fully committed to international standards of information exchange.
The OECD announced the changes in a statement and at a news conference on Tuesday where OECD chief Angel Gurria said: Continued...
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