Financial Transparency Coalition

Explaining the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International

Task Force member Transparency International today released the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index. Their study found the least corrupt country to be Denmark, and the most corrupt to be Somalia. From their press release...

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) has a new report out that looks at customer due diligence rules. Banks are currently required to perform certain kinds of customer due diligence to check for several different categories of things, including corruption risk. The report analyzes the status quo regarding customer due diligence rules, and begins to address whether or not a rules addressing similar processes for human rights concerns would be feasible.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),has a budget of roughly $5 billion, and operates about 6,000 foreign aid projects throughout the world. Last year, UNDP decided that it wanted to be more transparent in reporting what it does to the world. It got a $225,000 grant (Hat tip: Corruption Currents) to create a cool new web app: