Gemma Aiolfi, Head of Compliance, Corporate Governance and Collective Action at the Basel Institute of Governance, will be speaking at the 10th International Conference of Financial Crime and Terrorism Financing (IFCTF) 2018. Organised by the Asian Institute of Finance, the conference will take place on 30–31 October 2018 in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. The theme this year is: The rising voice of compliance – towards greater governance and transparency.

Registration is now open for the annual Arbitration and Crime workshop on 8 January 2021. Organised by the Arbitration and Crime Competence Centre, the event brings together leading arbitrators, lawyers, academics and other experts from around the world. 

This year's workshop, which will take place virtually on Zoom and is open free of charge to all, will feature the following panels: 

In collaboration with the Basel Institute on Governance, the Competence Centre for Arbitration and Crime is planning a two-day workshop that brings together arbitrators, lawyers, forensics, academics, students and representatives of NGOs from around the world.

The workshop, entitled International Arbitration and Corruption: A Toolkit for Arbitrators, takes place at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Basel University, on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 January 2019. 

The most recent special issue of the International Development Policy journal explores the topic of African Cities and the Development Conundrum. The issue includes an article co-authored by the Basel Institute's Head of Governance Research, Dr Claudia Baez Camargo, and Dr Lucy Koechlin of the University of Basel.

The Public Governance team of the Basel Institute on Governance has contributed an entry to the recent Public Administration Review's Blog Symposium dedicated to the topic of corruption. The title of the entry is "Informal networks: the invisible drivers of corruption and implications for anti-corruption practice".

Gemma Aiolfi, Head of Compliance, Corporate Governance and Collective Action at the Basel Institute of Governance, presented at the 10th International Conference of Financial Crime and Terrorism Financing (IFCTF) in Kuala Lumpur on 30 October 2018. Organised by the Asian Institute of Finance, the conference brought together about 1,000 compliance officers from Malaysian and international financial institutions.

Do you want to understand the mechanisms behind global corruption and the best ways to combat it – in less than five minutes? Sadly, it's not as easy as that. But this short opinion piece by our Head of Governance Research, Claudia Baez Camargo, offers a fun, quick answer to why we haven't yet succeeded in stamping out corruption.

It was published in UniNova, the University of Basel's research magazine. Read Claudia's opinion piece here.

The Basel Institute on Governance congratulates the Peruvian judiciary in confiscating a Luxembourg bank account belonging to James Stone Cohen, the former arms dealer of convicted Peruvian politician Vladimiro Montesinos. The International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), working through the Basel Institute’s country office in Peru, is proud to have assisted with the process. 

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo and Cosimo Stahl of the Basel Institute’s Public Governance division delivered a five-day training workshop to Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Lake Malawi in October 2018. The interactive workshop was part of the Basel Institute’s ongoing assistance to Malawi via the Tackling Serious and Organised Corruption (TSOC) programme funded by the UK Department for International Development.

Our Managing Director, Ms Gretta Fenner, recently spoke to The Ukrainian Week about ICAR’s cooperation with, and technical assistance to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine in investigating financial crimes of the Yanukovych regime, highlighting key operational tools and cooperation mechanisms for successfully tracing and recovering illegally obtained assets.