In July, federal prosecutors secured a significant appellate victory affirming their power to prosecute foreign commercial bribery worldwide. Yet when defendants Hernán Lopez and Full Play Group petitioned for Supreme Court review, the DOJ reversed course, abandoning both the case and the precedent it had just won.

The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) was founded in 2010 in Vienna, Austria, to provide anti-corruption education and training to professionals and practitioners, advance new research in the field, serve as a platform for dialogue and networking among specialists, and develop anti-corruption strategies and guidelines. At the end of November 2025, Drago Kos, one of IACA’s lecturers and previously Chair of the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery, was appointed as the Ac

Among the thousands of professionals displaced when USAID was dismantled were numerous lawyers whose work had undergirded the agency’s programs worldwide. Understanding that those skills could be transferred to serving other organizations in the international development and humanitarian assistance space – such as foundations, impact investors, multilaterals and non-profits, as well as corporations – a team of attorneys recently launched Mission Driven Counsel LLP. 

With the halt to the FCPA earlier this year, a lot of compliance teams reached out with questions on what compliance topics remain relevant and top-of-mind with shifting policies.    The shift in enforcement announced by the DOJ in June and the latest declination for FCPA violations announced in August conveyed that there are tried and true compliance topics that should continue to be enforced each and every year, throughout the year. And these should always be top-of-mind.

Several months ago on this blog, I examined the role that impact investors can play in advancing the fight against corruption in conversation with Ambassador John Simon of Total Impact Capital. To explore this important question in further detail, I spoke recently with Huma Yusuf, Director, Business Integrity, and Varun Sharma of British International Investment (BII) and Chara de Lacey, Head of Business Integrity at Transparency International UK (TI-UK).

In several previous pieces for BriberyMatters, I have examined the links between beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) and anti-corruption, such as safeguarding government procurement, limiting business’ third-party risks, and protecting economies against the investment of ill-gotten gains. To continue this theme, I spoke with the Executive Director of the UK-based non-profit Open Ownership (OO), Thom Townsend. Our conversation was timely, coinciding with the August release