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:

Basel AML Index updates methodology to reflect rising global fraud risks

The Basel AML Index – the Basel Institute’s ranking and risk assessment tool for money laundering risks around the world – will include indicators of fraud in its 2024 methodology update.

The changes reflect the growing significance of fraud as a predicate offence to money laundering and as a risk that regulated entities need to consider. Though definitions of fraud vary and data is both poor and inconsistent, the social and economic consequences of fraud make it impossible to ignore in any money laundering risk assessment.

B20 Brazil 2024 Integrity and Compliance Task Force: Policy Paper

Nicolas Hocq

Associate, Communications and Events
+41 61 201 18 22
Biography

This Policy Paper was prepared by the B20 Brazil Integrity and Compliance Task Force. In this document, B20 members call for stronger actions from the G20 in 3 key areas:

- Recommendation 1: Encourage the implementation of integrity and anti-corruption measures to enhance responsible and sustainable governance in business.

- Recommendation 2: Stimulate Collective Action, engaging the Public Sector and value chains to uphold integrity.

- Recommendation 3: Promote ethical leadership to foster inclusive growth.

7th Basel Arbitration and Crime Conference

Monica Guy

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

This 7th annual gathering of leading arbitrators, lawyers, forensics and academics at the University of Basel will advance discussions on how the arbitration community can better address allegations of corruption or money laundering in relation to underlying disputes.

Swiss-Peruvian public finance management programme enters exciting new phase

We are delighted that our highly successful programme to strengthen public finance management at the regional and local levels in Peru is entering its third four-year phase.

Funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) since 2013, the Programa GFP Subnacional aims to improve how public finances are managed and spent at the subnational level and to optimise the delivery of public services to Peruvian citizens.

How mushroom sites and disinformation stand in the way of combating corruption in Bulgaria

How does the media influence public discourse on corruption and anti-corruption? And how can we ensure information integrity in an age of disinformation, propaganda, fake news and hybrid attacks? 

To answer those questions in the context of Bulgaria, Sensika, a global media monitoring and analytics firm, processed more than 44 million articles in Bulgarian online media outlets and more than 20 million Facebook posts and comments on corruption and anti-corruption topics between January 2023 and February 2024.

Quick Guide 33: Multi-agency asset recovery task forces

Mirella Mahlstein

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

To effectively combat organised and financial crime, it is often necessary for countries to establish multi-agency asset recovery task forces, which could also be understood as joint investigation teams/units. The teams are made up of personnel from various agencies in the criminal justice system to effectively investigate financial crime and recover laundered assets.