Publications

Browse publications and videos covering ethics, compliance and anti-bribery.

TRACE Books

2020

Corrosive: Corruption and its Consequences

Experts across diverse fields examine corruption’s pervasive nature and its damaging effects on nations, communities and individuals.

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2020

What You Should Know About Anti-Bribery Compliance

A collection of TRACE white papers covering essential topics in global anti-bribery compliance including international due diligence standards, individual liability and facilitation payments – a must have for any compliance professional.

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2016

How to Pay a Bribe: Thinking Like a Criminal to Thwart Bribery Schemes

True-to-life stories of corporate bribery, offering practical insights from journalists, prosecutors and anti-bribery experts.

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2007

Bribery and Extortion: Undermining Business, Governments, and Security

(Praeger Security International)

Using international cases, Alexandra Addison-Wrage examines how bribery fuels criminal activity and undermines security, democracy and humanitarian efforts worldwide.

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Graphic Novel • 2020

What You Should Know About Anti-Bribery Compliance

FIFA's compliance failures covers the last several decades and illustrates just how badly wrong things can go when an organization doesn't value good governance. This graphic novel underscores the importance of transparency, leadership values and oversight and demonstrates how shoddy governance never occurs in isolation.

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TRACE Videos

Bribery's Deadly Consequences

This video leverages real-life examples to emphasize the devastating consequences of even seemingly small bribes.

Corruption Files

Created in honor of TRACE’s 20th anniversary, this video series delivers riveting firsthand reports from the frontlines against corruption and reveals the real personal impact of financial crime.

Episode 1: The JournalistEpisode 2: The WatchdogEpisode 3: The WhistleblowerEpisode 4: The InsiderEpisode 5: The Advocate

Corruption Files

Episode 1: The Journalist

Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova found herself being blackmailed, thrown in prison and later placed on probation for simply doing her job: alleging corruption among the ruling family. In the first episode of our Corruption Files series, Khadija tells her story.

Corruption Files

Episode 2: The Watchdog

How did a U.S.-headquartered management consulting giant’s venture in South Africa end with a public inquiry into the Zuma administration and millions of dollars in returned fees? Economist and political scientist William Gumede explains McKinsey’s role in “the wasted decade.”

Corruption Files

Episode 3: The Whistleblower

A career civil servant-turned-whistleblower in Spain found herself battling a nationwide political machine, facing death threats and hiding in a foreign country for years. This is Ana Garrido’s story.

This episode is also available in Spanish.

Corruption Files

Episode 4: The Insider

Johannes Stefansson alleged that the company he worked for paid bribes to gain access to Namibia’s fishing grounds. Years later, he reflects on the Fishrot case—and his suspected poisoning.

Corruption Files

Episode 5: The Advocate

After reporting U.S.-sanctioned mining magnate Dan Gertler’s alleged illicit financial network, two bank auditors-turned-whistleblowers came under threat and were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gabriel Bourdon-Fattal with The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa tells their story.

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