Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments For January 2021

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 from the past month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask: Which countries had the best, and the worst, showings in Transparency International's 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index? What new anti-corruption agency was established in South Korea? What are China's future anti-corruption enforcement priorities? The answers to these questions and more are here in our January 2021 Top Ten list.

1. Transparency International Releases Annual Corruption Perceptions Index. On January 28, 2021, Transparency International (TI) published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2020. 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 professionals, outside counsel, and