Is financial crime really a security threat, as an increasing number of countries and experts now say? If so, in what sense? And what implications might that have for our efforts to fight it?
The issues around framing financial crime as a threat to national and international security were a key topic on the agenda of the first international Summit of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime (GCFFC) in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10–11 September 2024.
Investing in preventing and combating the misuse of the crypto ecosystem for financial crime is vital to safeguard both national and international security.
This was a resounding message arising from the 8th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies, which concluded on 12 September 2024 after two days of intense discussions and updates from leading voices in the field.
Leading voices in the field of countering economic crime came together at the 2024 Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime to discuss this year’s theme: “suspect assets”.
The very first session of the Symposium sought to answer a key question from the outset: Why attack assets in the first place?
At a joint webinar with the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators, leading legal experts from around the world explored the debates around the role of victims in negotiated settlements for economic crimes.
Financial data is the foundation of any investigation into corruption and related financial crimes – but a lot of data is not available in a format that is easy to collect and analyse.
Investigators often waste many hours combining data from different formats, manually re-typing financial data contained in images or poor scans, or copy-pasting information from the internet. Not only is this inefficient and frustrating: it may lead to errors that will throw the investigation or prosecution off course.
This publication (in Spanish) focuses on the use of non-conviction based forfeiture legislation in Peru (Extinción de Dominio) to recover instrumentalities of crime. It is a collaborative effort of asset recovery experts of the Basel Institute on Governance under the Programa GFP Subnacional or Subnational Public Finance Management Strengthening Programme in Peru, funded by the Swiss SECO Cooperation.
This report analyses the top corruption and anti-corruption narratives in Bulgarian online and social media from 2023 to early 2024. It was produced by Sensika, a global media monitoring and analytics firm, in support of the Basel Institute's ongoing programme of work in Bulgaria.
The report is a follow-up to a similar analysis in 2023 covering the period 2021–2022.
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A new guide to non-conviction based forfeiture published by GAFILAT, the Latin American body of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) sets out good practices for this powerful but under-used form of asset recovery legislation. It also emphasises the need for laws to align with both domestic constitutions and international human rights standards.
A guest blog by Ryan Carter, a law student at Arizona State University who is undertaking a legal research internship at the Basel Institute on Governance.