While anti-corruption and integrity standards are widely adopted, their effective implementation on the ground remains a persistent challenge. Businesses, as engines of innovation and economic growth, hold untapped potential to co-create practical solutions alongside governments that advance integrity in real-world settings. This session explores how public-private cooperation can bridge the gap between policy and practice, drawing on the success of the Galvanizing the Private Sector (GPS) initiative, now in its third year. Panellists will share concrete solutions emerging from GPS, including on public-private peer-to-peer learning, anti-corruption in infrastructure, supply chain integrity due diligence, and the use of tech for integrity.

Bribery solicitation remains a pervasive challenge in global markets, undermining fair competition and public trust. While the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention has historically focused on combating the supply side of foreign bribery, the 2021 OECD Anti-Bribery Recommendation introduced new provisions to address bribery solicitation, marking a significant step forward. This session will explore innovative strategies developed by governments, businesses, and civil society to tackle the demand side of corruption, including collective action initiatives and measures to reduce extortion risks. Participants will discuss how enhanced cross-border collaboration and enforcement can help disrupt solicitation schemes while fostering greater accountability and fairness in international business. The session will also highlight the proactive role of companies in resisting solicitation, strengthening compliance programmes, and reporting corrupt practices. Tackling both the demand and supply sides of bribery is crucial to building a balanced and effective approach, ensuring systemic change and promoting integrity in global markets.

Corporate crimes such as bribery and procurement fraud involve complex, hidden schemes that challenge authorities, businesses, and civil society alike in their detection, investigation, and prevention. This session will explore how cutting-edge technologies—such as data analytics, digital forensics, and artificial intelligence—are driving transformation in enforcement, compliance, and oversight efforts. Participants will discuss how these tools can be leveraged in different ways by businesses and civil society to identify corruption risks, prevent or monitor irregularities, and generally promote greater transparency. The session will also underscore the importance of collaboration between enforcement authorities, the private sector, and civil society, showcasing how multi-stakeholder approaches and data-sharing frameworks can strengthen the global response to corruption. Ethical considerations and governance challenges, particularly with AI, will also feature in the discussion, offering insights into how innovation and collective action can create a more effective and accountable anti-corruption landscape.

De-risking, driven by geopolitical turbulence, expanding sanctions regimes, or complex AML/CFT regulations, has led financial institutions to scale back services in ‘high-risk’ geographies and customer groups. This trend undermines financial inclusion - a vital enabler of Sustainable Development Goals - by increasing remittance costs, restricting trade finance, and disrupting humanitarian aid delivery. The impacts on aid effectiveness, risks of aid diversion, and the safety of aid workers are also severe. This session will convene experts from the private sector, NGOs, regulators, and donors to explore concrete solutions. Discussions will leverage findings from an upcoming 2025 OECD report on de-risking. Special attention will be given to innovative technologies that enable safer, faster, and more accessible cross-border financial services. Panellists will examine how international co-operation, public-private partnerships, and strong political commitment can create incentives to mitigate de-risking while safeguarding financial systems from illicit financial flows.

The Public Integrity Indicators (PIIs) measure countries’ resilience to corruption risks. The PIIs provide actionable data on corruption vulnerabilities across the public sector to support decision-makers in strengthening national integrity systems. Drawing on administrative data, instead of public perceptions or expert ratings, the PIIs blend both indicators on the strength of laws and regulations (de jure) and indicators on their implementation in practice (de facto). The PIIs address a need for reliable, actionable evidence to support government stakeholders in their anti-corruption reform efforts. The data can also be employed for private sector organisations’ corruption risk assessment. With datasets downloadable for further research, these indicators benchmark country performance and provide an evidence-based approach to developing and implementing better integrity policies for better lives. This session will feature the winners of the OECD's Anti-Corruption Research Challenge which invited researches, students and practitioners from diverse regional and disciplinary backgrounds to propose novel insights using the PIIs, create data visualisations and provide actionable evidence for anti-corruption policies across OECD-member countries and non-member economies.

Access to reliable, comprehensive data is essential to combat corruption effectively, yet significant gaps persist in many regions and sectors. This session will explore how maintaining, sharing, and utilising data can strengthen global anti-corruption efforts, including through peer review mechanisms that foster transparency and accountability. Discussions will delve into the innovative use of AI and data analytics by anti-corruption actors to detect and address corruption risks, with a view to enhancing integrity in both public and private sectors. Participants will examine existing data divides, identifying where gaps hinder progress and exploring collaborative strategies to bridge them. With a focus on partnerships across governments, civil society, and the private sector, the session will highlight cutting-edge approaches and technologies that enable stakeholders to harness the power of data. Join this timely conversation on leveraging innovation to close data divides and advance the global fight against bribery and corruption.

Strategic corruption is a key tool leveraged by foreign powers and can render significant damage to the economy, sovereignty and national security of target states. Moreover, strategic corruption often plays out as an enabler and an amplifier for foreign interference activities across diverse channels such as political financing, elite capture, election interference, or economic coercion. From the unique perspectives of business, government and civil society, this session will explore existing practices of strategic corruption, ranging from revolving doors, to political finance or economic coercion, and unpack the differences and similarities with standard corruption practices. Informed by the devastating impact on businesses and governments, this session will provide an opportunity to identify practical solutions grounded on transparency and integrity to better tackle this pressing corruption challenge and adapt the anticorruption toolbox to today’s more challenging geopolitical environment.

The green transition offers immense opportunities for sustainable development but also presents significant corruption risks that could undermine its potential. Considering the delicate balance between the urgency of the green transition and the need for robust governance measures, this session will explore the vulnerabilities in green financing and investments, including undue influence, misallocation of funds, and fraud in large-scale renewable energy projects. Panellists will discuss the challenge of ensuring supply chain integrity in the sourcing of critical materials for sustainable technologies, as well as corruption risks in emerging carbon markets. The importance of global cooperation in tackling these challenges will also be addressed, highlighting international frameworks and partnerships that safeguard climate initiatives. The discussion aims to provide fresh insights into how anti-corruption measures can strengthen trust and transparency, ensuring that the race toward a greener future remains both sustainable and equitable.