The UK’s National Crime Agency – widely dubbed Britain’s FBI – is at a crossroads. If it is to be at the forefront of the UK’s fight against serious and...
Corruption costs lives in developing countries and the UK is part of the problem. Its army of ‘professional enablers’ (including bankers, lawyers, estate agents and accountants) help to launder and...
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sparked a radical shift in the UK’s use of sanctions, as the UK scaled up its ambition for this key tool of...
Political integrity crises are not unique to the UK. Over the past decade, Australia has faced its own issues, dropping in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index by over 10...
The UK has a serious accountability gap when it comes to senior executives. Those at the helm of large firms that engage in economic crime, financial wrongdoing or regulatory breaches...
Spotlight on Corruption and Transparency International UK have produced a joint briefing ahead of a debate in the House of Lords on 11 January 2024 on parliamentary democracy and standards in public life....
This research provides an overview of the rules that the UK’s key allies (the United States, Canada and Australia) have to tackle fraud against the government in their jurisdictions and...
After reforms to lobbying rules are eventually implemented, there will still be no requirement to disclose non-diarised informal lobbying in departments’ transparency releases, even if it impacts upon or shapes...
