On January 13, 2026, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether Idaho and West Virginia can ban transgender athletes from women’s school sports teams. While the Court will address whether such bans discriminate based on sex in violation of Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) isn’t waiting for an answer. It is already enforcing Title IX as requiring such bans, threatening over $300 billion in federal grants to coerce co

For more than two decades, TRACE has brought compliance and risk professionals together for a two-day gathering where members hear directly from enforcement agencies, compliance experts and each other, share best practices, discuss emerging compliance challenges, benchmark with their peers, and stay on top of the latest regulatory developments and enforcement trends worldwide.

Training can often seem like the dreaded task to complete at the end of the year and avoid for the rest of the year. But training can, and should, be a way to improve and move forward within an employee's lifecycle and should be seen not as a burden, but as an opportunity. These next few paragraphs will share insights and tips in to how to create training programs that can guide learners to new skillsets and generate new ideas, making training a part of the culture and mindse

When a city is selected to host the FIFA World Cup, the announcement is framed as a civic triumph. Officials point to global visibility, tourism, and long-term economic benefits. Renderings of upgraded stadiums and revitalized neighbourhoods are flashed to the media. The message is clear: hosting is an investment; the payoff will follow.

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