Short, direct insights on governance, internal control, corruption prevention, accountability, and institutional integrity.
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FATF recommendations
FATF’s recommendations remain one of the clearest global reference points for how states and institutions are expected to control money laundering, terrorist financing, and related predicate crime risks.
Who should read it: board members, compliance officers, regulators, researchers, and senior decision-makers in financial institutions
What to focus on: board-level risk implications, technical requirements, supervisory expectations, and comparative evaluation logic
These resources provide the conceptual and practical backbone for understanding anti-corruption beyond slogans, optics, or performative compliance.
Foundational framework
The AACI Ten Principles of Fighting Corruption
The AACI’s foundational anti-corruption framework. It is useful for readers who want corruption addressed through law, internal control, governance, accountability, prevention, and institutional discipline rather than vague ethical language.
The AACI’s implementation-oriented standards page. It works as a bridge between principle and application, especially for readers focused on competence, deterrence, transparency, whistleblowing, and disclosure.
Best for: compliance officers, regulators, board members, and researchers
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct
A high-level governance and conduct resource for board members and senior leaders who need broader oversight guidance on responsible business expectations.
Note: broad governance source, not limited to anti-corruption
Basel Committee corporate governance principles for banks
A strong sector-specific reference for boards in banking and regulated finance, especially where risk management and decision-making discipline are central.
A strategic governance and private-sector integrity reference that helps senior decision-makers track evolving anti-corruption thinking and collective action.
Compliance officers need resources they can apply. They are looking for frameworks, evaluative tools, and implementation guidance that can be translated into controls and action.
Implementation standards
The AACI Standards on Fighting Corruption (SFCs)
A practical AACI gateway for readers who want implementation-focused anti-corruption guidance tied to competence, deterrence, transparency, whistleblowing, and disclosure.
Regulators and enforcement stakeholders need resources that deal with implementation, cooperation, peer review, and legal architecture.
Normative anchor
The AACI Ten Principles of Fighting Corruption
Useful as a structural anti-corruption anchor for public-sector readers who want law, governance, judiciary effectiveness, and accountability treated seriously.
United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)
The central international anti-corruption convention and a core reference point for legal framework, implementation commitments, and state obligations.
Researchers need transparency, methodology, and data access. This section is for readers who want to understand how corruption-related indicators are built and where methodological caution is necessary.
Conceptual framework
The AACI Ten Principles of Fighting Corruption
Useful for scholars and commentators examining anti-corruption as a governance architecture rather than as a narrow legal or compliance issue.
This page is curated to support serious anti-corruption learning, governance judgment, and institutional accountability. It includes both external international sources and selected AACI foundational materials because anti-corruption requires global reference points, conceptual discipline, and practical implementation guidance.