TRACE International on Thursday published its 2020 Bribery Risk Matrix, providing chief compliance officers with key insight on each country’s areas of business-related bribery risk. Some notable data points this year: The United States fell, while China improved.

TRACE first launched its Bribery Risk Matrix in 2014 with chief compliance officers in mind to meet a need in the business community for more reliable information about commercial bribery risk worldwide. To arrive at each country’s score, the matrix analyzes four specific domains:

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...