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:

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.

Environment Day at the 11th UN Conference of the States Parties to the UNCAC

Monica Guy

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

Corruption and crimes that affect the environment (illegal deforestation, crimes in the fisheries and minerals sectors, wildlife and waste trafficking, among others) are deeply intertwined and are mutually reinforcing. Recognising this link, States Parties to the UNCAC adopted Resolution 8/12. 

Asset management and cryptoassets (CoSP11 special event)

Monica Guy

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

The management of proceeds of crime is increasingly recognised as a critical component of asset recovery and return and countries will provide examples of lessons learned in this session. It will also look at how countries are seizing, confiscating and managing cryptoassets.

Ukraine's resilience: Anti-corruption for post war recovery (CoSP11 special event)

Monica Guy

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

This panel focuses on Ukraine’s anti-corruption resilience in its post-war recovery. We detail how anti-corruption infrastructure is stress-tested to mitigate future risks. The panel highlights digital solutions (corruption risk assessments, compliance, e-Declarations, AI legal expertise, data analytics...) and OECD Working Group on Bribery accession as corruption deterrence mechanisms.

This special event takes place in hybrid format at the 11th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption in Doha, Qatar.

Technical assistance and domestic efforts for asset recovery (CoSP11 special event)

Monica Guy

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

This session features country efforts to support international cooperation for asset recovery, highlighting the importance of technical assistance with a case study from Kenya and the IACCC, and domestic efforts, including by India, to strengthen mechanisms for asset recovery cases under UNCAC.

Stepping up the fight against foreign bribery (CoSP11 special event)

Monica Guy

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

How can countries step up action against foreign bribery? This session explores new momentum in global enforcement, from joint UK–France–Switzerland efforts to OECD insights and how fines and settlements can support anti-corruption and development.

This special event takes place in hybrid format at the 11th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption in Doha, Qatar. It is co-organised by the Basel Institute on Governance, OECD and Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative.