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ANTI-FRAUD INVESTIGATION TECH DEVELOPS APACE – BUT IT SHOULD AID RATHER THAN REPLACE FACE-TO-FACE QUESTIONING, SAY EXPERTS
With electronic communication methods proliferating, as machine learning and artificial intelligence systems develop fast, the potential for using technology to detect deception and lies is growing. But interrogation experts maintain that the most effective way of detecting lies and deceit remains a combination of face-to-face interviews, backed up with analysis that can help them assess the resulting exchange.…
ANTI-FRAUD INVESTIGATION TECH DEVELOPS APACE – BUT IT SHOULD AID RATHER THAN REPLACE FACE-TO-FACE QUESTIONING, SAY EXPERTS
With electronic communication methods proliferating, as machine learning and artificial intelligence systems develop fast, the potential for using technology to detect deception and lies is growing. But interrogation experts maintain that the most effective way of detecting lies and deceit remains a combination of face-to-face interviews, backed up with analysis that can help them assess the resulting exchange.…
COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS BOLSTERED SPENDING ON ANTI-FRAUD PROFESSIONALS
The boom in online fraud through the Covid-19 pandemic, at a time when new fintech is being rolled out, has grown demand for anti-fraud professionals.
The latest assessment released by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) (published in December 2020), based on responses from 1,712 anti-fraud professionals, (49% of whom were in the USA and Canada), said that 41% of organisations (public and private sector) are planning to increase their overall anti-fraud budget in 2021.…
NEW CAMPUS TO PUT CAPE VERDE ON GLOBAL MAP OF RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONALISATION CENTRES
THE NEW campus of the University of Cape Verde (Uni-CV), which has cost almost USD60 million to build and should open next March (2021), is expected to attract more national and international students and researchers to this island country. The launch of this modern facility has been delayed from July (2020) because of Covid-19, but it is hoped the March opening will stick.…
INTERNATIONAL FOOD BRANDS MAY BENEFIT FROM EASIER ACCESS TO CHINESE CONSUMER MARKETS THROUGH EXPANSION OF CHINA E-COMMERCE ZONES
Representatives of international food brands and analysts have told just-food that China’s State Council’s approval of 46 new pilot zones for companies conducting cross-border e-commerce, a move designed to help the country’s economy withstand the blows landed by the Covid-19 epidemic, also present opportunities to foreign food brands selling to Chinese consumers. …
AML PROFESSIONAL PROFILES BECOMING MORE DIVERSE, BUT PAY AND CONDITIONS MAYBE HIT BY COVID-19
New aspiring entrants to the AML/CFT and other compliance sectors will be hard hit regarding available jobs and related pay and conditions by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, according to international recruitment agency Randstad. Its Hong Kong director banking and financial services Rick Chung warned: “Similar to what we have witnessed during the global financial crisis, it will be challenging for fresh graduates to secure jobs during these extraordinary times.”…
MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BRANDS USING E COMMERCE LINKS TO MAINTAIN POSITION IN CHINA'S GROWING BEAUTY MARKET
A queue formed at the L’Oréal stand at November’s China International Import Expo fair, in Shanghai: the French firm had set up photo opportunities to appeal the ‘Da ka’ set – Chinese slang referring to generation of selfie-taking youths who seemingly live to photograph themselves at important landmarks.…
CHINA DAIRY TAKE OVER FOLLOWS CHINESE GOVERNMENT POLICY FAVOURING INFANT FORMULA CONSOLIDATION
The USA-owned Shengyuan International Group (trading as Synutra – http://www.synutraingredients.com and https://www.shengyuan.com.cn/), a China-focused milk powder specialist, has successfully acquired a Chinese dairy sector competitor Alfbeta (Chinese name Harbin Aibeite). The deal has been confirmed by a note from the new subsidiary – posted in Mandarin on http://www.aibeite.com.…
CHINA DENIES HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CLAIMS OF FORCED CLOTHING AND TEXTILE LABOUR IN XINJIANG
Despite China officially ending its “re-education through labour” programme in 2013, disturbing media reports on detentions of ethnic Muslim minorities in “re-education camps” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in north-western China have multiplied since mid-2017.
These concerns have started to lose business for Chinese companies.…
MYANMAR GARMENTS SECTOR GROWTH IS UNEVEN AMIDST POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY
THE GARMENTS sector is a jewel in newly democratic Myanmar’s export crown, now the second largest revenue earner after natural gas. Yet all too often the headlines about the industry are negative. Labour disputes and poor working conditions frequently take centre stage, while rising wages and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Rakhine State are the latest shadows on the horizon.…
MYANMAR GARMENTS SECTOR GROWTH IS UNEVEN AMIDST POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY
THE GARMENTS sector is a jewel in newly democratic Myanmar’s export crown, now the second largest revenue earner after natural gas. Yet all too often the headlines about the industry are negative. Labour disputes and poor working conditions frequently take centre stage, while rising wages and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Rakhine State are the latest shadows on the horizon.…
CHINA TO FIX PUNCTUALITY: FLIGHT DELAYS SOAR AS SKY’S THE LIMIT FOR AIR TRAFFIC
IMPROVING China’s woeful civil aviation punctuality is clearly a priority for China’s air traffic controllers, and they are seeking new ways to improve a dismal record that has unleashed a wave of public disquiet. Speaking at his organisation’s annual traffic control management conference in Beijing this January, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) head Feng Zhenglin promised to improve punctuality by better information sharing and efficiency at airports.…
HK PLAN TO RECRUIT OVERSEAS WORKERS TO TACKLE AGE CRISIS DIVIDES HR COMMUNITY
LOCAL human resources experts have given a cautious welcome to a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) plan to attract more foreign labour as part of a solution to dealing with its ageing workforce, but warned further measures are needed to tackle the problem long term.…
CHINA MOVES TO WORLD’S NUMBER POSITION IN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SALES
China will boast the world’s number one cosmetics market in 2018 according to global financial services firm Morgan Stanley: it will account for 20% of total sales, compared to 17% for the second-placed USA and 10% for third placed Japan – overtaking America for the first time, it said.…
COLOUR COSMETICS SALES WITNESS SHARP INCREASE IN CHINA
SALES of colour cosmetics have trailed skin care purchases in China, but this may change in future, with make-up sales rising at a rapid pace in recent years.
A survey by market researchers Mintel in April this year revealed 62% of urban Chinese women claim to wear make-up every year, up significantly from the 38% of women surveyed just a year before.…
CHINA OPENS UP FOR COACHING, BUT PRACTICE STILL LARGELY FOCUSED ON MULTINATIONALS
China may have more coaches than ever, with the majority of them serving multinationals only, the expansion of the profession is still limited, a Shanghai conference has been told.
“China’s coaching industry will only take off when local companies embrace coaching, Garry Wang, CEO of the coaching service provider MindSpan, said at a two–day leadership coaching conference entitled ‘Leading into 2020’ held in Shanghai on June 22-23.…
CHINA’S PRESIDENT ASSERTS CIVILIAN CONTROL OF MILITARY BUT PLA RETAINS ROLE IN AIRPORTS
WHEN China’s President Xi Jinping donned a red helmet and rubber boots to walk the construction site of Beijing’s new airport on February 23 (2017), he told the assembled engineers and workers that the airport was part of China’s plan to become a “powerful civil aviation nation.”…
RISING INCOME LEVELS AND STRONG GROOMING TRENDS DRIVE UP SOUTH AFRICAN PERFUME SALES
SOUTH African fragrance sales are growing swiftly. Research released by Euromonitor International in April 2016 entitled ‘Fragrances in South Africa’ showed a market more than doubling from South African rand ZAR5.288 billion (USD423 million) in 2010 to ZAR11.505 billion (USD923.4 million) in 2015.…
KENYAN BATH AND SHOWER PRODUCTS MARKET DIVERSIFIES AS SALES EXPAND
The Kenya bath and shower product market is projected to grow on average by 3% year-on-year to 2020, according to UK-based market researcher Euromonitor International. In a report released this September (2016), the sector during 2015 was valued at Kenyan Shillings KES2.4 billion (USD23.4 million at recent exchange rates).…
SMUGGLING OF COUNTERFEIT COSMETICS IN AND OUT OF CHINA CONTINUES TO BOOM
Seizures of contraband cosmetics have become an increasingly common sight on local TV in China. A recent case in point (this March – 2016) saw 1,488 boxes of South Korean cosmetics seized from a forty-foot container in the east coast port city of Qinhuangdao, about 300km east of Beijing.…
MONEY LAUNDERERS EVER MORE INVENTIVE SAY DIRTY MONEY EXPERTS AND INSIDERS
TO discover the best intelligence on money laundering, sometimes it is best just to ask the money launderers. Take China. There are numerous ways of getting dirty money out of China. The most common include smuggling a satchel of banknotes to Hong Kong (where Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY) is convertible), where it is washed through an over-priced (for quick transaction) purchase of real estate in the city, several Hong Kong real estate agents told the Money Laundering Bulletin.…
CHINA OILS AND FATS MARKET MOVED TOWARDS HIGHER END RETAIL PRODUCTS
Rising incomes and a continued tightening of food safety enforcement is boosting demand in China for commercial packaged oils, with consumers moving away from the bulk oils that have dominated past markets.
Overall, while year-on-year growth in global oils and fats production has averaged 3% in each of the past two years vegetable oils sales in China will rise an average 16% per year in the period 2014-2018.…
TECHNOLOGY SPEEDS UP FAST FASHION ORDERING AND DISTRIBUTION
Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems help apparel companies share information more efficiently and plan for future lines more accurately as time-to-market shrinks.
Software such as the WFX Cloud PLM helps speed up companies’ processes from product concept and design to delivery at stores, said Jatin Paul, CEO of WFX (World Fashion Exchange).…
CAN THE NEW BRICS BANK PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN CHINA, GLOBALLY?
A potential bonanza of new projects may be offered to Chinese construction companies following the set-up of a new development bank with lots of cash for infrastructure projects. This July marked the launch of the so-called ‘BRICS Bank’, a new multilateral development bank, operated by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.…
WILMAR STILL EXPLOITS CHINA-WIDE SUPPLY CHAIN, BUT SOY COULD BE A PROBLEM MARKET
THERE are few brands as recognisable to Chinese consumers as the ‘Golden Dragon Fish’, the ‘Jin Long Yu’ in Mandarin, which adorns the tubs of cooking oil and bags of flour and rice in supermarkets across the country. The brand is owned by Singapore-based conglomerate Wilmar, a one-time trading house which has come to increasingly invest in downstream and upstream elements of the oil palm and soy industries.…
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – EU-CANADA TRADE DEAL WILL HELP CONFECTIONERS
EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canadian confectioners can look forward to increasing their trans-Atlantic trade once a new free trade agreement between the EU and Canada comes into force, probably in 2015.
The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), announced on October 18, will remove most tariffs for confectionery and sweet bakery products imposed by both sides on each other’s exports.…
EU CONSIDERS TIGHTENING FOOD FRAUD CONTROLS – BUT HOW FAR SHOULD IT GO?
EUROPEAN Union (EU) regulators are tangling with the difficulty of tightening rules-of-origin for meat products, given the potentially significant number of manufacturing stages required. The European Commission and European Parliament have been considering their response to the horse meat labelling scandal.…
SINGAPORE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS LAUNCH ALLIANCE TO TAP CHINESE STUDENT MARKET
THE SINGAPORE government’s much lauded change of gears from running an economy known for its efficiency to one where innovation also plays a key role has been illustrated in a new education services export initiative, targeted at China.
The city state’s trade promotion agency IE Singapore (IE for international enterprise) signed in January a memorandum of understanding with seven local leading training and educational institutes and universities to form what it calls a Singapore Talent Development Alliance (STDA).…
JAPAN'S LUXURY KIMONO SECTOR HAS SHRINK IN SIZE, BUT CORE MARKET IS DEVOTED
BY ROB GILHOOLY, IN TOKYO
Junsaku Koshihara kneels on the tatami mat floor and shows off some of the colourful textiles handcrafted at his family’s atelier in Ome City, north-western Tokyo. Hand-dyed using special hake brushes on hand-woven silk, one shows mandarin ducks sitting on a wind-swept pond sprinkled with cherry blossoms; in another, a red wooden bridge zig-zags across a lake of purple and white lilies.…
CHINESE WOMEN SEEK COMSUMER SAFETY THROUGH BUYING COSMETICS WITH NATURAL INGREDIENTS
BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI
THE DEMAND for natural ingredients-based skin care products has been growing so fast in China that both multinational and domestic cosmetics companies are pouring new products onto the market to attract consumers, both men and women, with different levels of income.…
CHINA PROVIDES NICHE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOREIGN NURSES
BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI
WHILE China is desperately in need of nurses – 1.9 million to be exact, according to the nation’s ministry of health – the opportunities for overseas healthcare providers who are not ethnically Chinese are limited, as the government requires all nurses working in China to be able to pass a national test in Mandarin.…
COACHING BEGINS LONG MARCH INTO CHINA
BY DINAH GARDNER
WITH its five thousand years of history, it’s unique Confucian-based social traditions and, more recently, a one-party state system, no one expects China to take on the western concepts of coaching without tweaking them a little. "The best coaches in China are those who can blend Western best practice with Chinese wisdom and social mores," says Frank Gallo, an American who offers business coaching in China via his own company, Calypso Consulting.…
CHINA UNLIKELY TO MOVE QUICKLY TO ADOPT FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING
BY MARK GODFREY
THOUGH its top trading partners continue to stick with the fair value or mark to market principle set by the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), China remains unwilling to embrace the principle. Though Beijing, keen to nurture its companies into global corporate champions, has been bringing its Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises (ASBE) closer to the IFRS it won’t require listed firms to use the fair value approach – “not for the foreseeable future,” Dickson Leung, partner at the Beijing offices of Lehman Brown has told Accountancy Age.…
BOTTLES WATER AND FRUIT JUICE CONSUMPTION BOOM FUELS GROWTH IN MIDDLE EAST DRINKS SECTOR
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut, and HELENA FLUSFELDER, in Jerusalem
THE DRINKS market in the Middle East continues to increase on the back of population growth, economic development, improvements in distribution and retail, and more aggressive advertising campaigns.
But like much of the rest of the world, younger and better educated market segments within the region are shifting away from carbonated soft drinks (CSD) towards fruit juices and bottled water as people become increasingly health conscious according to independent industry analysts and the drinks sector.…
PEPSI THRIVES IN SYRIA AFTER 50-YEAR-BAN ENDS - SOFT DRINKS REVIEW
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus
THE SOFT drinks market in Syria is undergoing unprecedented growth, expected to surge 17%-18% this year over last year’s 12% growth, and Pepsi’s share of the market growing after just under a year of operations in the country.…
MIDDLE EAST - NORTH AFRICA DRINKS INDUSTRY REPORT
BY MARK ROWE AND PAUL COCHRANE
INTRODUCTION
JUST as chocolate sells well in cold countries, so do soft drinks flourish in hot countries, which would suggest that North Africa and the Levant presents an inviting face to the international drinks market.…
USA FLAVOURED CIGARETTE RESEARCH - HARVARD
BY MONICA DOBIE
NEW research from the Harvard School of Public Health has found that cigarette makers are increasingly targeting young smokers by launching new brands featuring confectionary and liqueur-flavours that mask the harsh flavours found in tobacco smoke. In one case, a tobacco manufacturer used innovative product technology to imbed a flavour pellet in the actual cigarette filters, to deliver fruit and liqueur tastes.…
SOFT-DRINKS - LEVANT
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
BUSINESS has not always been easy for American soft drinks companies operating in the Middle East in the past five years. Companies have had to grapple with campaigns boycotting American products, political instability, war and alternative colas trying to gain market share.…
MIDDLE EAST - NORTH AFRICA DRINKS INDUSTRY REPORT
BY MARK ROWE AND PAUL COCHRANE
INTRODUCTION
JUST as chocolate sells well in cold countries, so do soft drinks flourish in hot countries, which would suggest that North Africa and the Levant presents an inviting face to the international drinks market.…