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NEW job vacancy: HR Assistant (20-40%), BaselThe Basel Institut is looking for a motivated, internationally minded HR Assistant to join our administration team, managed by the Head of Operations, to handle a variety of personnel and related administrative duties. |
February 14, 2017 |
The Basel Institute in the newsSwiss institute: Peru corruption could reach billions. After helping Peru recover some $77 million from Swiss accounts linked to former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos, the Basel Institute on Governance is now supporting the country’s judicial system in “the most complex... |
February 13, 2017 |
New: Expert Edition Plus – dataset analysis of FATF Mutual EvaluationThe Basel Institute is now offering a highly detailed and comparative analysis of the FATF Mutual Evaluation Reports as an additional service to the Expert Edition of the Basel AML Index. |
February 7, 2017 |
Our latest blog post: So what makes fighting graft a challenge in Kenya?Well firstly there needs to be the desire, both in terms of public consensus as well as at governmental level, though some could argue these should be one and the same in an ideal world. |
February 6, 2017 |
Launch of train-the-trainer programme on financial investigation and asset recovery in TanzaniaFrom 16 to 20 January 2017, experts from the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted the first training workshop in the Train-the-Trainer programme for the Prevention and Combatting of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
January 24, 2017 |
Global conference on countering money laundering and digital currenciesFrom 16 to 18 January 2017, more than 400 financial investigators from money laundering, cybercrime and financial intelligence units met with experts in asset recovery and relevant private sector representatives at the Global conference on countering money laundering and digital currencies in Do... |
January 19, 2017 |
NEW job vacancy: Deputy or Co-Director for Public Financial Management Program, PeruThe Basel Institute on Governance has been mandated by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) to act as Implementing Agency for a multi-year Program aimed at improving the capacity of subnational governments in Peru to manage their public finances in an effective and transparent... |
January 16, 2017 |
Uganda: Financial investigation and asset recovery Train-The-Trainer programme certifies three trainersBetween July and December 2016, as part of the DFID funded and ASI managed SUGAR programme, ICAR experts delivered a series of four workshops on financial investigation and asset recovery to investigators and prosecutors from a range of Ugandan law enforcement and prosecuting authorities. |
December 20, 2016 |
ICAR assists in implementing Romania’s National Anticorruption StrategyRomania has recently launched a project to “Support achieving the National Anticorruption Strategy objectives by increasing the efficiency of the asset recovery and management”. |
December 15, 2016 |
Exploring attitudes towards corruption through the lens of social norms and values in East AfricaWhat is corrupt behaviour? In order to better understand how endemic corruption “works” from the perspective of the affected populations themselves, researchers from the Basel Institute explore behavioural factors that impact attitudes towards petty corruption in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. |
December 13, 2016 |
New FATF Evaluation on Switzerland – a comparative analysisToday (7 December 2016), the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its latest evaluation of Switzerland. According to this FATF report, Switzerl... |
December 7, 2016 |
Secrecy has to be tackled globally: Stiglitz and Pieth produce their own Panama reportBasel Institute Chairman and criminal law expert Mark Pieth and Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz have just released their analysis of the issues revealed by the so-called “Panama papers”. |
December 6, 2016 |