The Basel Institute on Governance is a non-profit organisation that works with the public and the private sector to counter corruption and other types of financial crime and to improve the quality of governance. The Basel Institute is an Associated Institute of the University of Basel.

The Basel Institute publishes the Basel AML Index

The Basel AML Index is an index that annually ranks countries according to its money laundering and terrorist financing risk.

The index takes into account the Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism regime in place in the country, as well as other factors such as financial transparency and the effectiveness of judicial authorities.

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is an independent think tank for defence and security research, founded in 1931 in the United Kingdom.

RUSI regularly publishes interesting publications on money laundering, terrorism, terrorist financing and financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction as well as discussion papers on mechanisms to combat money laundering and terrorist financing (such as information exchange between the private and public sector).

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), located in Paris, has 38 members and its aim is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems.

The OECD also sets international standards on a wide range of topics, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals.

The OECD also sets out to make life harder for the terrorists, tax dodgers, crooked businessmen and others whose actions undermine a fair and open society.

Money laundering is a serious threat to the legal economy and affects the integrity of financial institutions. Fiscal fraud is one of the three main sources of dirty money. Tax authorities can play an important role in detecting and deterring money laundering.

In 2009, the OCDE published a Money Laundering Awareness Handbook for Tax Examiners and Tax Auditors.

This handbook provides guidance in identifying money laundering during the conduct of normal tax audits, and describes the nature of money laundering activities so that tax examiners and auditors can better understand how their contribution can assist FIUs and criminal investigators in countering money laundering. This document can be downloaded on the site of the OCDE.

In 2010, the OECD adopted a new recommendation to facilitate cooperation between tax authorities and law enforcement authorities.

In 2011, the OECD launched the Oslo Dialogue and organised a first forum on “Tax and Crime – A whole of Government approach to fighting financial crime” in Oslo, Norway.

More information on this dialogue launched in 2011 is available on the OECD website.

The OECD also sets out to make life harder for terrorists. In June 2016, the OECD published a brochure on the mechanisms through which corruption and criminal exploitation of natural resources facilitate terrorism.

Since 2001, the IMG has contributed to developing a national and international policy for combating money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT).

The IMF contributes to developing and implementing measures related to financial integrity in programmes supported by the IMF, as well as a large number of capacity development activities and study projects.

This contribution also includes conducting several assessments of the stability and integrity of the financial system (Financial Sector Assessment Programme (FSAP)) and each of these assessments includes a part on AML/CFT.

The IMF also analyses the national and international AML/CFT regimes and the links between AML/CFT and key topical issues such as virtual currencies, Islamic banking, the cost and strategies to mitigate the effects of corruption, and the decrease in corresponding banking relationships.