"China-led AIIB will be lean, clean and green - official", 11th April 2015

The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will be lean, clean and green, its interim chief said..."Lean is cost effective; clean, this bank will have zero- tolerance on corruption; green means it's going to promote the economy," China's Xinhua news agency quoted Jin Liqun, secretary general of the bank's multilateral interim secretariat...More than 40 countries have applied to join the AIIB, with the United States and Japan being notable absentees...Washington has questioned whether the AIIB will have sufficient standards of governance and environmental and social safeguards.