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A Switzerland-based nonprofit group Wednesday released what it's calling the first independent ranking of countries for anti-money laundering and financial crime risks, based on 12 national and nongovernmental indices. The index, created by the Basel Institute on Governance, risk-ranks nations based on their vulnerabilities to money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption, as well as their financial transparency. The rankings rely on data from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Transparency International and other groups, as well as internal analyses. The institute created the index, under the direction of its International Centre for Asset...