Call for Submissions: Research Symposium on Beneficial Ownership Transparency (BOT)
Are you a researcher, academic expert, advocate, or practitioner working on beneficial ownership transparency (BOT)? Submit your work for the Research symposium: Evidence and impact of beneficial ownership transparency. Hosted by Open Ownership, the World Bank Group’s Beneficial Ownership Transparency Thematic Working Group (BOT TWG), and the Centre for the Study of Corruption at […]
Call for Papers: Financial Regulation International, December Issue, 2025
The Global South Dialogue on Economic Crime invites paper submissions for the June Issue of Financial Regulation International (FRI). FRI is a practitioner-focused news service that features articles and opinion pieces on international and domestic financial regulation, private law disputes, and the financial services industry. Theme: From Secrecy to Transparency: Current Trends and Regulatory Responses […]
Research Symposium Call for Submissions: Evidence and Impact of Beneficial Ownership Transparency
Call for submissions Research Symposium: Evidence and impact of beneficial ownership transparency Date: 26 to 27 February 2026 Location: Hybrid and University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Deadline: 23:59 GMT, 16 November 2025 Contact: research@openownership.org About the Symposium Open Ownership, the World Bank Group’s Beneficial Ownership Transparency Thematic Working Group (BOT TWG), and the […]
Tanzania’s Mineral-Rich Mining Sector Is Significantly Impacted by Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs), Often Hidden Through Opaque Beneficial Ownership Structures
While Tanzania has made commendable progress in establishing beneficial ownership regulations and fighting IFFs, challenges remain. These include technical and technological issues in data management, resistance to reform from industry and political figures, and gaps in the legal framework and its enforcement. Addressing these IFF risks requires a multi-layered, comprehensive approach involving strategic policy reforms, […]
Report on the Book Launch of Global Anti-Money Laundering Regulation: Developing Countries’ Compliance Challenges edited by Dr. Nkechikwu Valerie Azinge-Egbiri, Professor Nicholas Ryder and Professor Ehi Eric Esoimeme of James Hope University, and published by Routledge in 2025
The official Book Launch of Global AML Regulation: Developing Countries’ Compliance Challenges held on August 28, 2025 at 2pm BST. The book which was edited by Dr. Nkechikwu Valerie Azinge-Egbiri of Lancaster University, Professor Nicholas Ryder of Cardiff University and Professor Ehi Eric Esoimeme of James Hope University and published by Routledge in year 2025 […]
African Economic Outlook 2025
Africa is losing hundreds of billions of dollars annually to financial crime and illicit financial flows (IFFs)! This massive drain, stemming from capital flight, profit shifting by multinational enterprises (MNEs), and corruption by elites, severely hinders the continent’s development. Consider the scale of these losses: • An average of $90 billion in IFFs is lost […]
Fifth Edition of the 24-hour Conference on Global Organised Crime
This session of the Fifth Edition of the 24-hour Conference on Global Organised Crime took a look at the Regulatory Approaches Taken Towards Organized Crime in the Global South Region. It featured various discussions on issues such as the impact of organized crime on governance, the relationship between corruption and organized crime and the effectiveness […]
Call for Applications #OC24
ABOUT 2020 marked the start of a global pandemic and the world’s first 24-hour virtual conference on global organized crime, #OC24. Since then, four editions of OC24 have taken place, bringing together researchers and practitioners from all over the world at a scale and in a way that a physical conference cannot match. With various […]
Call for Papers: Financial Regulation International, June Issue, Vol. 27th, 2024
The Global South Dialogue on Economic Crime invites paper submissions for the June Issue of Financial Regulation International (FRI). FRI is a practitioner-focused news service that features articles and opinion pieces on international and domestic financial regulation, private law disputes, and the financial services industry. FRI, now in its, 27th Volume, aims to provide detailed […]