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AML EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS ARE COMPLEX AND UNEVEN TOOLS TO FIGHT DIRTY MONEY FLOWS
THE WIDE diversity of AML laws worldwide can complicate the enforcement of AML/CFT extradition proceedings.
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations 37 and 39 say that governments should be prepared to extradite money launderers (and terrorist financiers) to another country if they both criminalise the underlying predicate offence.…
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE CAN PAY DIVIDENDS FOR TEXTILE SECTOR
INTRODUCTION
NEW technology can deliver effective maintenance strategies to clothing and textile manufacturers, helping them go beyond reactive and proactive maintenance, moving into the more sophisticated world of prediction. The goal is to deliver an optimum maintenance strategy that enables manufacturers to get the most value out of their plant and equipment by spending the least amount of time, resources and money to deliver effective performance.…
NONWOVENS COMPANIES NEED TO KEEP CLOSE EYE ON DETAIL OF SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BANS
SINGLE use plastics bans being brought in across the world may not cover all nonwovens products, but they certainly are having an impact on the industry as it parses often complex rules coming into force.
A key piece of legislation is the European Union’s (EU) so-called ‘single use plastics directive’ (1) which has deadlines passing in 2021.…
GRAPHENE HELPING NONWOVENS MANUFACTURERS CREATE MATERIALS THAT CAN KILL VIRUSES, INCLUDING COVID-19
Already described by its proponents as a “wonder material” with numerous applications across the nonwovens sector, researchers now believe that graphene can play a “critical” role in the defeat of the coronavirus pandemic.
From advanced personal protection equipment (PPE) to air and water filtration systems, nonwovens manufacturers around the world have capitalised on this carbon-based material’s anti-viral capabilities to boost their product ranges.…
CASH STILL KING FOR MONEY LAUNDERING, DESPITE IN CRYPTO AND ECOMMERCE FIAT TRANSACTIONS
Anti-money laundering specialists may be focusing on how crypto-currencies and online transactions pose an increasing ML/TF risk, especially with Covid-19 encouraging ecommerce, but the reality is that cash remains the money launderers’ best instrument for moving dirty money.
That is the conclusion of Gabriel Hidalgo, a managing director at risk specialists K2 Integrity, in New York: “Cash is king for ML; it continues to be king; and on the majority of levels, illicit actors will continue to use cash,” he said.…
ISLAM CAN GROW AND PROMOTE GOODNESS BY FOLLOWING GOD’S TRUE WORD, IGNORING THE FALSE PROPHETS OF TERROR
For a religion to be strong, it must be confident in itself: solid in its convictions and robust in its humility. While its true adherents should imbue its principles within their souls, such depth of faith should enable believers to accept others may follow a different creed.…
AGENTS PREDICT RECORD LOW SALES IN 2020 MAY PERSIST THIS YEAR, AS BREXIT AND COVID-19 IMPACTS SHAKE OUT
LANDOWNERS looking to sell holdings were hoping 2020 might be more predictable than 2019, once Brexit happened last January 31, after four years of political uncertainty. But a global pandemic and a last-minute trade deal heading off a no-deal end to a Brexit transition period this January 1 meant that last year was more unpredictable, further tightening inventory.…
AGENTS PREDICT RECORD LOW SALES IN 2020 MAY PERSIST THIS YEAR, AS BREXIT AND COVID-19 IMPACTS SHAKE OUT
LANDOWNERS looking to sell holdings were hoping 2020 might be more predictable than 2019, once Brexit happened last January 31, after four years of political uncertainty. But a global pandemic and a last-minute trade deal heading off a no-deal end to a Brexit transition period this January 1 meant that last year was more unpredictable, further tightening inventory.…
ARAB MEDIEVAL SCHOLAR’S WISDOM MAY OFFER A WINDOW ON THE MODERN POLITICAL WORLD
The medieval scholar Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun, a famous Tunisian historian of the 14th and 15th centuries, created a model for the history of states, which he said had a natural life of birth, maturity and death.
His Muqaddimah, published in Arabic in 1377, written as a prelude to an ambitious survey of global history, said states went through three stages, always ending – as the adage about politics says – in failure.…
CHINESE STARTUP SINKS TEETH INTO SUGAR FREE CHOCOLATE
A Shanghai-based startup confectioner LANDBASE (NOTE TO EDITOR – UPPER CASE SPELLING FOR COMPANY NAME IS CORRECT) has tapped China’s competitive chocolate market though selling sugar-free chocolate, sweetened with alternative flavouring inulin, targeted at health-focused consumers.
The two-year-old company’s brand CHOCDAY and product lines ‘Dark Milk’ and ‘Dark Premium’, have been developed in China, but manufactured in Switzerland for the Chinese market, a first in China.…