It’s that time of year again when chief compliance officers, chief risk officers, and in-house counsel are gifted with TRACE International’s annual Bribery Risk Matrix, a free resource for assessing the level of business-related bribery risk in countries around the world.

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,...