Basel Institute newsletter - February 2025
The newsletter covers highlights at the Basel Institute in February 2025. It also features our latest news, blogs and other publications.
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Basel Institute newsletter - January 2025
The newsletter covers highlights at the Basel Institute from December 2024 to January 2025. It also features our latest news, blogs and other publications. We take this chance to welcome four new staff members to the team.
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Detect, develop, defend: How to build effective corruption risk indicators and red flag systems
Working Paper 56: Anti-corruption Collective Action: A typology for a new era
Since its first use by the World Bank in 2008, the concept of "anti-corruption Collective Action" has evolved into a well-established best practice to prevent corruption and strengthen business integrity.
This paper captures the specific characteristics of anti-corruption Collective Action that have emerged over time and translates them into an easy-to-grasp typology that reflects both the variety and unifying principles that make up the Collective Action ecosystem. It aims to:
Progress in Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts - March 2025 update
This document takes stock of recent progress (June 2024 to February 2025) in strengthening Ukraine’s anti-corruption ecosystem. It is published ahead of the Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum, hosted by the OECD in Paris in March 2025.
Despite the turbulent geopolitical context and the drastic reduction of US government assistance, Ukraine has maintained a strong commitment to anti-corruption efforts. This report highlights key developments, including:
Quick Guide 39: Business integrity and ethics
The changing landscape of anti-corruption regulation and enforcement has triggered important discussions around the role of ethics and compliance in business strategies and in the economy as a whole. It has also given impetus to the narrative that anti-corruption compliance programmes are inevitably costly, potentially ineffective and bureaucratic.
Project FALCON: Innovating the fight against corruption across the EU
There could hardly be a more critical time for policymakers in the European Union to understand how corruption really intersects with organised crime and impacts citizens’ security, prosperity and trust in institutions.
And just as importantly, how to leverage data and advanced tools to fight corrupt networks effectively.
Zambia: Five local trainers certified to train peers in financial investigations and asset recovery
Congratulations to five talented individuals from Zambia’s law enforcement agencies and prosecution service, who have successfully completed the train-the-trainer programme of our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR).
Smarter blockchain investigations: insights from INTERPOL
Vincent Danjean, Head of INTERPOL’s Cyberspace and New Technologies Laboratory, spends much of his time working on ways to help law enforcement keep up with evolving cyber threats. Among these: the use of crypto for organised crime and money laundering.
How tackling green corruption can help us get ahead in the race to net zero
Juhani Grossmann and Amanda Cabrejo le Roux explain the strategic re-focusing of our Green Corruption programme on energy and climate:
What is “green” corruption and why does it matter?
Green corruption refers to corruption and other financial crimes and governance failures that harm the environment and hinder global efforts to combat climate change.