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...

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.

On 17 June, after a five-month trial, a London jury acquitted Diezani Alison-Madueke of all six bribery charges, closing an investigation that had run for more than a decade.

FIFA has spent years telling anyone who would listen that it changed its ways in regard to its corruption issues. Among their efforts include a new disciplinary code, “independent” judicial bodies, a governance overhaul built to bury the memory of the bribery scandals that put more than a dozen officials in the reach of U.S. prosecutors in 2015. Then, on a Sunday in July, a phone call from the President of the United States undid a good part of that work in a single news cycl

The recent Executive Order "Urgent National Action to Save College Sports" is now the second Executive Order that has been issued within the first 15 months of the Trump Administration attempting to fix collegiate athletics, which in itself showcases the complex realities and difficulties that face college sports today.

In this second of a two-part series with anticorruption leader and Ukraine expert Matthew Murray about the status of, and risks to, Ukraine’s anticorruption agenda, I explore where he thinks there are opportunities and resources to move that agenda forward.