With the award to BBC Panorama and The Guardian of the Investigation of the Decade accolade at the British Journalism Awards for their part in the Panama Papers exposé, it is a good time to take stock of the U.K. impact and how journalistic efforts to shine a light on what they consider to be the darkest corners of international finance have fared since.

Andrew Park

The Panama Papers revelations in 2016 by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) were dramatic. Some 2.6 terabytes of documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca encompassing everything from records of beneficial ownership to copies of the most candid internal and external correspondence.