The Compliance Without Borders Handbook

Nicolas Hocq

Corruption in state-owned enterprises has a unique ability to undermine governments, markets and citizens’ well-being. While international standards promote integrity in the state-owned sector, their implementation remains a challenge. This handbook describes an innovative peer-learning programme – Compliance Without Borders – and its contributions to strengthening anti-corruption compliance in state-owned enterprises. It explains the benefits of galvanising the private sector to work with their state-owned counterparts in preventing corruption and levelling the playing field.

360-degree support for Collective Action against corruption in Bulgaria – what’s next?

“Fighting corruption has to be a collective effort. No single stakeholder can do it alone. Government cannot do it alone, or the public administration. If only citizens are left to fight corruption, they will struggle. And the private sector likewise.”
– Gretta Fenner, Managing Director, Basel Institute on Governance

Research Case Study 4: Deconstructing a criminal network involved in illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and Southeast Asia

Communications Team

The illegal wildlife trade threatens biodiversity and security worldwide. Criminal networks pocket billions of dollars in illicit profits from stripping the world bare of endangered species and corrupting politicians and public officials in the process.

Yet there is very little empirical evidence on the role of both ordinary citizens and criminal networks in the illegal wildlife trade. Our research aims to fill this gap.

FALCON takes off: Basel Institute to contribute anti-corruption expertise to EU research project

The Basel Institute, together with the University of Basel, are joining a consortium of 25 organisations from 15 countries under the EU’s new research project, FALCON: Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networks.

The aim: to develop data, evidence and tools to support both policymakers and practitioners in the fight against corruption.

Corruption and anti-corruption narratives in Bulgarian media: Media monitoring and analysis report

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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Biography

This report analyses the top corruption and anti-corruption narratives in Bulgarian online and social media from 2021–2022. On the basis of this analysis, it draws conclusions on:

  • Media ownership transparency
  • Media funding transparency
  • Smart support for civil society
  • Amplifying the impact of fact-checking organisations
  • Proactive information campaigns

It was produced in collaboration with Sensika, a global media monitoring and analytics firm, in support of the Basel Institute's ongoing programme of work in Bulgaria.

Basel AML Index 2023: reflecting the progress of grey-listed jurisdictions

The Basel AML Index – the Basel Institute’s global money laundering index and risk assessment tool – will see a small but important methodology update this year. The aim is to better reflect the progress of jurisdictions that have graduated from the so-called grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global standard setter for anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT).