BriberyMatters has regularly covered increasing risks of corruption in the United States, tied both to recent regulatory and enforcement changes, and to President Trump’s extensive business interests. One issue took the headlines on August 11, when the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) made permanent the rule ending beneficial ownership reporting for all domestic entities and US persons under the Corporate Transparency Act...

In the nearly 10 years since its creation, the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA) had never issued a financial penalty pursuant to its authority under Article 17 of the Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Economic Modernisation Act, known as Sapin II. That changed this July with a €350,000 fine against an unnamed company, and a €60,000 personal fine against its legal representative.

Since January 2025, the federal government has seemingly stepped back from a range of good governance, transparency, and anti-corruption measures, from the February 2025 executive order pausing FCPA enforcement, to the March 2025 rule by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) exempting nearly all US companies from Corporate Transparency Act beneficial-ownership reporting, to the shifting enforcement priorities of the Foreign Agents Registratio

As discussed previously in BriberyMatters, President Trump's apparent wide-ranging conflicts of interest have been a recurring concern of anti-corruption experts during his time in office, particularly in this second term. Now, a new concern has come into focus: paid priority access to the President’s statements on his Truth Social platform.

AI can review 10,000 transaction data before I've finished my morning coffee. That is the good news and part of what companies aim for with the increased usage and adoption of AI. The bad? It can also help a fraudster write 10,000 convincing phishing emails with perfect grammar just as efficiently. According to the FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report, losses from Business Email Compromise (BEC) in 2025 alone amounted to a staggering $3.04 billion making it the second most ram

On July 28, FIFA confirmed a plan to create a new commercial subsidiary, FIFA Forward Enterprise, that would sell a stake of up to 20 percent in the commercial rights to the World Cup and other FIFA competitions to outside investors. The deal is being pitched at an initial equity valuation of $20 billion, with FIFA aiming to raise up to $4.2 billion this year.