Frank Vogl

Anti-Corruption • Ethics & Integrity

Frank has been engaged with global economics, banking, governance and anti-corruption for more than 40 years, as a journalist, as a World Bank senior official, as an anti-corruption civil society leader, and as a top level advisor to financial institutions.  Frank is President of Vogl Communications, Inc., which has provided advice to leaders of international finance for more than two decades.

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Hillary's Fight for Freedom -- Her Crucial Legacy

March 01, 2013 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance

No U.S. secretary of state devoted as much energy, time and determination to encourage non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in many difficult and dangerous parts of the world to speak truth to power. Her actions in support of human rights, the building of democracy, the strengthening of the rule of law, and opposition to government-driven corruption, were remarkable.

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March 01, 2013 /Frank Vogl /Source
Foreign Policy
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance
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Transparency International Celebrates 20th Anniversary in 2013 - Looking back makes the outlook for corruption fighting bright

January 02, 2013 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, General

It was late 1992 and Peter Eigen was putting the finishing touches to plans that would see the launch of Transparency International in 1993. For several years Eigen, then a veteran World Bank senior official, had been waging a campaign inside the Bank and across the development aid community to build understanding of how corruption – the abuse of power for personal gain – was wrecking anti-poverty projects in many of the world’s poorest countries.

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January 02, 2013 /Frank Vogl
Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, General
Comment

Afghanistan’s Cesspool of Corruption

December 06, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News

The 2012 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), published this week, finds Afghanistan at absolute rock bottom, sharing this dismal place with North Korea and Somalia. Despite the flow to Afghanistan over the last decade of hundreds of billions of dollars of Western – mostly American – economic and military aid, this country is a rotten cesspool of corruption.

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December 06, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Afghanistan, Karzai, Corruption, CPI, Transparency International, Foreign Aid
Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News
Comment

Rising Threats to Civil Society - Egypt, Russia.....

November 25, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News

Many of my friends leading human rights and anti-corruption organizations from Bahrain to Zimbabwe face rising threats from national governments and their security forces. The vice is tightening in one country after another on activists for human rights, political reform, freedom of speech, and anti-corruption.

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November 25, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Civil Society
Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News
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Corruption Takes Center Stage in Greek-Euro Crisis

October 31, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy, News

The Greek government, under international pressure to attack rampant domestic corruption, acted on Monday by hauling an investigative journalist into court. Costas Vaxevanis faces trial for having published the names of 2,059 Greeks who have accounts at the HSBC bank in Switzerland.

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October 31, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Greece, Euro
Corruption, Global Economy, News
Comment

American Banker - How to Put an End to Bank Bashing

October 22, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy

The blasts at bankers as being corrupt are not about to subside. Recent high-profile allegations against some of the largest banks, from charges of interest rate manipulation, to breaking U.S. sanctions on Iran, to vast money-laundering schemes, are just a taste of what is to come. Never before have there been so many investigations by such a multitude of official agencies in the U.S. and abroad of the possible malfeasance of bankers.

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October 22, 2012 /Frank Vogl /Source
Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy
Comment

The Arab Spring Will Not Become an Arab Winter!

October 11, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News

Has the brilliance of the Arab Spring been quashed by the horrors of an Arab Winter, as evidenced by the murder of US Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, Libya, the coming to power of the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, the rising prominence in Tunisia and beyond of the radical Salafis, and the brutality of the Syrian regime? 

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October 11, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, News
Comment

President Obama's UN Speech Highlights Priority of Supporting Civil Society Globally

September 29, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance

resident Obama's major speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2012, will be a powerful inspiration to civil society activists across the world who are fighting for democracy, an end to human rights abuse, for press freedom, for justice, and against corruption.

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September 29, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance
Comment

Sunshine On The Horizon For The Oil, Gas and Mining Cash

August 24, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment

Despite heavy lobbying by some of the United States’ most powerful corporations, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken a bold decision in support of transparency. The US Chamber of Commerce claimed that to force US oil, gas and mining companies to reveal details of their foreign payments to natural resources’ host governments would cost a whopping US$16 billion. 

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August 24, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment
Comment

Corruption Dare No Longer Be a Taboo Topic in this Presidential Election

August 21, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment

Reducing corruption is a top priority for Americans as they look at the upcoming elections. Yet the candidates are not discussing the issue.  Will the reporters posing questions in the presidential debates raise the topic? I doubt it.

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August 21, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Election
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Employment
Comment

Moving Money Laundering Investigations into Top Gear

August 14, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, Employment

Standard Chartered Bank, headquartered in the UK, has agreed to settle charges by New York’s banking regulators that it engaged in as much as $250 billion of illicit banking transactions on behalf of Iran in recent years. The bank is paying $340 million to end this legal fracas, but this is not the end of its troubles, just the beginning.

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August 14, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, Employment
Comment

Interest Rate Manipulation – Where are the Boards of Directors?

August 06, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, Employment

At least 15 of the world’s biggest banks are being investigated by national authorities on both sides of the Atlantic for rigging interest rates, which possibly involved trillions of dollars of transactions, from the mortgages of you and me, to what big corporations have had to pay.  So far, only Barclays Bank has been forced to settle – it was fined over $400 million and its chief executive and board chairman were forced to resign.  

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August 06, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, Employment
Comment

G20 must address financial integrity as corruption surges through major banking

August 01, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance

Allegations of insider trading at Nomura, money laundering at HSBC, interest rate manipulation at Barclays – it’s one scandal after another! Some say mega-banks are too complex to manage and control, others blame bad management, still others say the culture is rotten. Corruption abounds. Greed, secrecy, arrogance, lack of a moral compass, and opportunity all combine in too many financial institutions. 

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August 01, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, NGOs, Public Sector Governance
Comment

Britain’s Corruption Scandals Will Be Overshadowed by the Olympics – but Not Forgotten

July 31, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corruption, Public Sector Governance, Employment

The UK is in the midst of an avalanche of corruption, yet as if by magic, it will not place the multiple scandals on hold and distract itself with a feast of Olympic sport. The festivities may indeed bring joy to the public at large, although an abundance of press reports suggest Londoners are grumpy about everything from the rain to the traffic to the sheer cost of the games. 

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July 31, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corporate Governance, Corruption, Public Sector Governance, Employment
Comment

The Euro Crisis Is All Politics - Rerun of a Bad Movie

July 26, 2012 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy

The euro crisis will not be resolved until the citizens of Europe have greater confidence in the ability and the willingness of their national leaders to serve the public interest. Pundits may blame the bankers and politicians may blame the press, but over the last year on many trips to Brussels and Athens I have seen both the patent lack of political leadership and the deep mistrust of ordinary middle class Europeans.

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July 26, 2012 /Frank Vogl
Corruption, Global Economy
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