June. Transparency International organised a roundtable on the sidelines of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group’s meeting in Paris, France. We outlined financial integrity as a critical area for G20’s efforts on sustainable development and inequality reduction. See also: G20 Position Paper: Financial integrity for sustainable development and inequality reduction.

August. Ten years after G20 promises to crack down on anonymous companies, Transparency International took stock of where G20 countries stand. See also: G20 and corporate transparency: Put your money where your principles are.

October. The third-ever G20 Anti-Corruption Ministerial took place in Natal, Brazil. The officials adopted a declaration on sustainable development. In our view, the declaration neglects the G20’s critical role and responsibility in marshalling efforts against cross-border corruption.

November. Transparency International’s representatives from across the G20 wrote an open letter to G20 leaders asking them to salvage the anti-corruption agenda.

During the 10th session of the Conference of States Parties (CoSP) to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in Atlanta, Transparency International and Transparency International Brazil organised a civil society meeting with the Brazilian co-chair of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the G20 had a divisive year under the Indonesian presidency. All year long, Transparency International had repeatedly urged the G20 to stop kleptocrats and prioritise measures for combatting cross-border corruption and illicit finance. The G20 Leaders’ Bali Summit managed to produce a joint communiqué, but failed to make progress on the critical issue of transnational corruption.

More than three years after the G20 beneficial ownership principles were adopted, our G20 Leaders or Laggards? report found that 11 G20 countries still had weak or average beneficial ownership legal frameworks.

Transparency International’s report Just for Show? assesses the extent to which G20 members were fulfilling their commitments one year after the adoption of G20 principles on beneficial ownership transparency. The study revealed that 15 G20 countries had weak or average beneficial ownership legal frameworks.

G20 leaders pledged to crack down on anonymous companies. The adoption of High-Level Principles on Beneficial Ownership Transparency at the 2014 Brisbane Summit, for which we pushed, was an important milestone in shaping global consensus on the issue.

In 2010, G20 leaders established the Anti-Corruption Working Group “in recognition of the significant negative impact of corruption on economic growth, trade and development.”

At the Pittsburgh Summit, alongside the launch of the G20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth, leaders noted the importance of preventing illicit financial flows to protect resources being mobilised for development.