Two presentations will explore corruption as a global phenomenon but with different characteristics in the north and the south. They will show how financial linkages, corporate corruption, silent support for kleptocracy and lenient regulation allow different forms of corruption feed on each other. The first talk features Laurence Cockcroft, who, along with Anne-Christine Wegener, wrote ‘Unmasked : Corruption in the West’. This explored the nature and pervasiveness of forms of corruption in the west, painting a broad canvas covering political finance, lobbying, banking, secrecy jurisdictions, organised crime, sport and the environment. The second talk is with Jason Sharman, the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King’s College. It concerns the anti-kleptocracy regime, an unprecedented new international moral and legal rule that forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state.