Launch of the Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund campaign: Changing lives through education

We are pleased to announce the launch of a special crowdfunding campaign on the day of what would have been Gretta Fenner’s 50th birthday.

The campaign supports the Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund, which enables talented individuals from lower-income backgrounds to access our advanced anti-corruption programmes.

You can visit and share the campaign page here.

Basel LEARN: free courses on financial investigation, asset tracing, intelligence gathering and more

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist / Team Lead, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

Our online learning platform, Basel LEARN, offers a collection of free self-paced eLearning courses. They are developed to help law enforcement, anti-money laundering and compliance professionals gain new skills to fight financial crime.

The interactive modules help you to “learn by doing” – for example, by completing tasks in a simulated investigation. After successfully completing a course, you will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

Courses available:

Regional success: Over 200 professionals complete course on corruption in the timber value chain

On 23 November 2025, 222 professionals from Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia successfully completed the second edition of the virtual course “Corruption risk management in the timber value chain”. The initiative, led by the Basel Institute on Governance’s Green Corruption Programme, aims to strengthen integrity in the forestry sector and reduce the incidence of environmental crime.

Éxito regional: más de 200 profesionales completan curso sobre corrupción en la cadena de la madera

El 23 de noviembre de 2025, 222 profesionales de Perú, Ecuador y Bolivia finalizaron con éxito la segunda edición del Curso–Taller virtual "Gestión de riesgos de corrupción en la cadena de valor de la madera", una iniciativa del Programa Corrupción Verde del Basel Institute on Governance que busca fortalecer la integridad en el sector forestal y reducir la incidencia de delitos ambientales.

Roundtable on the rise and fall of Latin America’s biggest corruption case (CoSP11 special event)

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist / Team Lead, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This 1.5-hour roundtable will examine the Odebrecht case from the perspective of practitioners of a) countries that have prosecuted the company for bribing foreign public officials (recipient states); and b) countries whose public agents were bribed (victim states).

These perspectives are supplemented by the global vision of the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) and other specialised civil society organisations that have been providing technical assistance to several Latin American countries in this emblematic case for almost a decade.

Asset recovery and human rights (CoSP11 special event)

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist / Team Lead, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This panel explores the balance between human rights and international obligations on asset recovery, touching upon due process and property rights, and drawing lessons from the StAR publication Human Rights in Asset Recovery Processes: Lessons from the European Court of Human Rights.

Trust by design: how technology is revitalising Collective Action against corruption (Private Sector Forum at CoSP11)

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist / Team Lead, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

Over the years, Collective Action initiatives have demonstrated transformative value by bringing together competitors to tackle shared integrity challenges, level the playing field, and build trust for meaningful cooperation.

This panel will look at how Collective Action initiatives are gathering and leveraging knowledge and data from their members and networks, and how innovative approaches to data collection can further strengthen both the initiatives themselves and broader anti-corruption efforts.

Basel AML Index 2025

Mirella Mahlstein

Specialist, Publishing and Communications
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This is the 14th annual Public Edition report of the Basel AML Index, an independent, data-based ranking and risk assessment tool for money laundering and related financial crime risks around the world.

The Basel AML Index provides risk scores for jurisdictions based on data from 17 publicly accessible sources such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Transparency International and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime. The risk scores cover five domains considered to contribute to a high money laundering risk:

Basel AML Index 2025 reveals uneven progress in the global fight against financial crime

The 14th Public Edition of the Basel AML Index shows a world where money laundering risks are levelling out, with improvements in some high-risk countries balanced by declines in traditionally low-risk ones.

Developed and maintained by the Basel Institute on Governance since 2012, the Basel AML Index is an independent, data-based ranking and risk assessment tool for money laundering and related financial crime risks around the world.