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

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography
Submitted by Monica Guy on Mon, 02/20/2023 - 12:15

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:

Introduction to blockchain: Crypto investigation and AML compliance

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography
Submitted by Monica Guy on Wed, 08/13/2025 - 13:58

The Basel Institute on Governance offers a four-day training course covering the fundamentals of crypto, financial crime and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance.

Delivered virtually over four interactive three-hour sessions, the course equips practitioners from law enforcement, financial and business sectors to prevent, detect and investigate the use of crypto for illicit activities.

Advancing business integrity through collective action

Lucie Binder

Senior Specialist, Governance and Integrity
+41 61 205 56 76
Biography
Submitted by Lucie Binder on Wed, 08/06/2025 - 10:43

This paper explores governments’ role in fostering, facilitating and engaging in collective action initiatives to support the private sector in its fight against corruption. Building on the OECD Anti-Bribery Recommendation, the first international standard to recommend collective action as a tool to fight foreign bribery, the paper examines when, how and for what purposes governments participate in such initiatives.

Assessment of corruption risks in the construction, reconstruction and renovation of civilian infrastructure of Ukraine

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography
Submitted by Monica Guy on Thu, 07/31/2025 - 09:20

The report analyses corruption risks in Ukraine's civil infrastructure restoration efforts. It highlights 10 key priority risks and suggests mitigation measures. The priority risks are:

Introduction to blockchain: Crypto investigation and AML compliance

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography
Submitted by Monica Guy on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 14:12

The Basel Institute on Governance offers a four-day training course covering the fundamentals of crypto, financial crime and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance.

Delivered virtually over four interactive three-hour sessions, the course equips practitioners from law enforcement, financial and business sectors to prevent, detect and investigate the use of crypto for illicit activities.

Mitigating corruption risks in Ukraine's restoration: new report

Today, the Basel Institute on Governance jointly published a report with Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention and State Audit Service on corruption risks in Ukraine's civil infrastructure restoration efforts. 

With damage from the Russian aggression estimated to exceed EUR 500 billion, safeguarding state and foreign donor investments in restoration projects is imperative. 

More than Gantt charts: fighting financial crime as a Programme Manager

Misozi Samuti Chimbe, Programme Manager for Southern and East Africa at the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), reflects on how her passion for public service has led her to pursue the bigger mission of protecting public resources, and how her work has become a deeply personal endeavour. This article is part of a series on careers in fighting financial crime and opportunities to learn and study with the Basel Institute.

Quick Guide 41: Managing seized and confiscated assets

Mirella Mahlstein

Specialist, Publishing and Communications
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography
Submitted by Mirella Mahlstein on Wed, 07/16/2025 - 14:12

This Quick Guide explains why effective, transparent and fair management of seized and confiscated assets – including assets linked to sanctions violations – is essential to successful asset recovery. It introduces key principles, standards and practical steps based on international good practice. These include legal, institutional and technical arrangements, that help countries manage seized assets in a way that preserves value, ensures accountability and supports justice.

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