GI‑TOC’s 2025 Global Organised Crime Index shows that despite Europe’s 6.28 resilience score, rising FC, cyber fraud, expanding drug markets, and human trafficking signal evolving organised‑crime threats

The analysis finds that Europe demonstrates comparatively strong resilience to organised crime due to relatively robust governance, law-enforcement capacity and regulatory frameworks, although criminal markets remain active and increasingly sophisticated across the...

TI publishes its CPI 2025, revealing global corruption is rising, with the world average falling to 42/100 and democracies like US, UK, France are also slipping, flagging how weak institutions threaten governance

Key drivers of corruption include politicised justice systems, concentrated political power, restricted civic space, and entrenched inequality. Regional patterns show severe challenges in Sub‑Saharan Africa and Asia Pacific, while some Western democracies face stalled...

OECD’s AI Observatory Index 2026 unveils a 28-indicator framework to benchmark how effectively countries advance trustworthy AI across research, infrastructure, policy, skills, and global cooperation

The AI Index introduces a new composite framework to measure how effectively countries implement trustworthy AI, combining 28 indicators across five pillars—AI R&D, enabling infrastructure, policy environment, jobs and skills, and international cooperation—to help...

Basel AML Index 2025 ranking 177 countries, reveals that 54% improved AML/CFT frameworks, yet high-risk nations like Myanmar, Haiti, and DRC face rising ML threats, urging stronger legal and accountability systems

The 14th Basel AML Index finds that global money-laundering risk remains largely unchanged, with only marginal improvement, as progress in some high-risk regions, particularly parts of Sub-Saharan Africa is offset by rising risks in traditionally strong jurisdictions...