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Transparency urged to raise COVID-19 vaccine uptake. "Surveillance systems are needed to track any adverse effects of vaccines, while non-politicized debate and transparency around data are essential to improving COVID-19 immunization rates worldwide."   Medical Express : https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-transparency-urged-covid-vaccine-uptake.html     U.S.'s Cracking Down on Financial Crime: Six Issues to Watch in Thursday's House Hearing with the FinCEN Acting Director. "While the agency has made progress on some core objectives of the strategy, there is a lot more it must do to make the U.S. a less attractive destination for ill-gotten funds."   FACT Coalition : https://thefactcoalition.org/cracking-down-on-financial-crime-six-issues-to-watch-in-thursdays-house-hearing-with-the-fincen-acting-director/     Anti-Corruption Authority in Palestine submitted 82 cases of corruption to the Corruption Crimes Court. ...

Illicit Financial Flow - Nigeria Tasks West Africa On Register of Property Owners. " The federal government has called on all West African countries to put in place a register of beneficial owners of real estate properties in the respective countries so as to check the use of real estate as a conduit for money laundering and terrorism financing ."   All Africa : https://allafrica.com/stories/202204260010.html     European football's governing body UEFA and law enforcement agency Europol have joined forces to find new ways to combat corruption . "Cases of match-fixing and suspicious outcomes are piling up. Cooperation between law enforcement and sports organisations is crucial to identifying and investigating suspected cases in football."   Channel News Asia : https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sport/uefa-europol-fight-corruption-match-fixing-2649011     The Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) ha...

Supply-Chain Bottlenecks a Risk Factor for Corruption. "Oil, wheat, fertilizer, neon, iron and other important commodities are in limited supply, either directly because of sanctions or because the conflict has disrupted supplies from Russia and Ukraine. These shortages can lead less scrupulous third-parties and agents to pay bribes as a way to move things along."   The Wall Street Journal : https://www.wsj.com/articles/supply-chain-bottlenecks-a-risk-factor-for-corruption-11650533400?mod=business_featst_pos3     Corruption in the Western Balkans not abating: What is next? "In comparison to 2019, the anti-corruption progress of the Western Balkans that was noted in the first 10 or 15 years of monitoring corruption pressure and corruption involvement has been halted or even reversed in the last few years."   European Western Balkans : https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2022/04/20/corruption-in-the-western-balkans-not-abating-what-is-next/ ...

The European Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) introduces a new corruption index ( www.corruptionrisk.org ) including Corruption Risk Forecast (CRF). "Altogether, the CRF provides a broad-based and nuanced understanding of how 120 countries (with adequate data) manage — or don't manage — corruption."   FCPA Blog : https://fcpablog.com/2022/04/12/new-corruption-index-adds-forecasting/     [Opinion] South Africa's new company ownership regulation step in right direction. " The country has a chance to co-ordinate between its key institutions in order to reduce procurement risks, identify conflicts of interest, draw on emerging best practice, and tackle the grievous ways opacity of company ownership has been exploited against the public interest."   News 24 : https://www.news24.com/news24/columnists/guestcolumn/opinion-mashudu-masutha-karabo-rajuili-fatfs-new-ownership-regulations-a-step-in-right-direction-20...

Compliance With Anti-Bribery Laws Means Sharing Context and Sometimes Overcoming Cultural Norms. "One person's harmless inducement is another's criminal bribe. With customs, mores and laws that vary by culture, what constitutes bribery in each business context is not always clear. Help your employees and protect your company by providing clear context and explicit rules."   Corporate Compliance Insights : https://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/preventing-bribery-leave-nothing-imagination/     MPs of Rwanda call for stronger anti-corruption measures as convicts increase. "The number of people convicted of corruption crimes increased by 36 percent over the last three fiscal years. These rose up from 210 in 2018/2019 to 236 in 2019/2020 and 286 convicts in 2020/2021, according to the 2020/2021 activity report of the office of the Ombudsman."   The New Times : https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/mps-call-anti-corruption-measures-co...

International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) 2022 - Uprooting corruption, defending democratic values – will be hosted by the U.S. and organized by IACC council and Transparency International. "This year's conference (6-10 December in Washington D.C.) will take place at a crucial point in history. Facilitating intelligence-sharing and game-changing partnerships, it will push anti-corruption efforts to the forefront of the global agenda and boost responses to our most pressing shared threats."   Transparency International : https://www.transparency.org/en/news/dates-2022-international-anti-corruption-conference-uprooting-corruption-defending-democratic-values     Report on the State of Effectiveness and Compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Standards. "Overall, the report finds that countries have made huge progress in improving technical compliance by establishing and enacting a broad range of laws and regulations to better...

Sustainable Development Threatened by 'Finance Divide' and COVID-19. "Enhanced transparency and a more complete information ecosystem will strengthen the ability of countries to manage risks and use resources well. For example, tackling illicit financial flows with improved sharing and use of tax information, enhancing transparency of debt data and developing long-term credit ratings for sovereigns."   IDN-InDepth News : https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/sustainability/poverty/5225-sustainable-development-threatened-by-finance-divide-and-covid-19   [Publication link] 2022 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Bridging the Finance Divide by Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development   The Government of Indonesia should prevent terrorism financing new methods. "President Joko Widodo urged the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center and all ministries and agencies to take precautionary measures against...