In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and
compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most
important international anti-corruption developments in the past
month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask: Which
countries rose and which fell in this year's Transparency
International Corruption Perceptions Index? What new corruption
laws were published in Italy and proposed in Russia? What new
international bribery investigation was opened by French
authorities? The answers to these questions and more are here in
our January 2019 Top 10 list.
1. Transparency International Releases Annual
Corruptions Perceptions Index. On January 29, 2019,
Transparency International (TI)
released the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2018.
The CPI, which measures the perceived levels of public-sector
corruption in 180 countries and territories, provides one of the
major data-points used by compliance officers, outside counsel,
