The concept that law does not keep pace with technology is decades-old, as legislators, policymakers and regulators struggle to understand complex and fast-evolving realities, and to pass and implement the necessary oversight measures. The same can also be said of corporate governance, compliance programs, and the informal norms of business standards, ethics and integrity. Moreover, the idea that the rate of technological change is exponential – Moore’s law – implies that tec

When the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026 and then Vice President Delcy Rodríguez assumed the role of Acting President, Transparency International called for “restoring democracy… protect[ing] the rights of Venezuelans and address[ing] the country’s entrenched corruption crisis.”

In December 2025, I wrote about my discussion with Daniel Haberly, an expert in illicit financial flows based at the University of Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC), regarding how to map the networks that facilitate flows of corrupt funds around the world. In this second piece from our conversation, I drill down into his 2023 paper Corruption, Shell Companies, and Financial Secrecy: Providing an Evidence Base for Anti-Corruption Policy...

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.