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The Financial Action Task Force will soon direct nations to build corporate ownership databases, promptly collect and verify the information, boost scrutiny of foreign companies and ban new issuances of a particularly high-risk type of security, the group's top official said Thursday. Delegates at the global anti-money laundering watchdog's latest assembly in Paris this week also voted to include Turkey, Jordan and Mali on a gray list of nations with significant deficiencies in their rules and efforts against financial crime, and agreed to remove Botswana and Mauritius, President Marcus Pleyer told reporters at the end of the meeting. Panama, on...