Companies looking to expand their global footprint or invest for the first time in new, unfamiliar regions of the world may want to check out a new index that ranks countries by the complexity of their compliance requirements.

The TMF Group, a multinational professional services firm that specializes in corporate expansions, conducted the analysis by surveying its global team of accountants, lawyers, compliance experts, and other professionals across 84 jurisdictions. The overall aim, according to the report, was to get a detailed understanding of the changing compliance landscape globally.

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,...