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ISSB PUSHES FOR ITS STANDARDS TO BE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING GLOBAL BASELINE
Speaking at the event on Friday (Feb 17), Mark Carney, UN special envoy for climate action and finance, and former central bank governor for the UK and Canada, said of the baseline: “It’s critical. You need compatible information.”
Mr Carney stressed ongoing discussions between the ISSB and major jurisdictions, such as the EU (European Union), the USA and Japan, about the need for regulatory harmony.…

OPINION PIECE – CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL SHOULD SUE TWITTER AND HELP CLEAN UP SOCIAL MEDIA
Yes, Canada’s respected 75-year-old first ever indigenous Governor General should sue Elon Musk for defamation, as owner of Twitter, which published these untrue and poisonous comments.
Twitter and Musk made money from them – they attracted eyeballs, which boosted ad clicks, and boosted the social media site’s profile.…
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT PROPOSES REGULATIONS MANDATING ALL NEW CARS, SUVs AND PICKUPS ARE ZERO EMISSION BY 2035
The Canadian government has released anticipated proposed regulations insisting that all new private passenger autos sold in Canada by 2035 must be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). While welcoming the law in principle, Canadian automakers have warned that the federal government will need to spend more in helping consumers buy ZEVs and on investing in charging networks to ensure this mandate is practical and affordable.…
GM EXECS AND CANADA POLITICAL LEADERS HAIL LAUNCH OF FIRST CANADA LARGE-SCALE EV ASSEMBLY PLANT
GM and Canadian political leaders today (Dec 5) hailed the launch of Canada’s first large-scale EV assembly plant, making BrightDrop Zevo electric delivery vans at the Big Three auto-maker’s CAMI assembly plant at Ingersoll, Ontario. BrightDrop, a wholly-owned GM subsidiary, announced it plans initial production of its Zevo 600 models in January (2023) and Zevo 400 models late next year (2023).…
CANADA AND USA MAY BE NORTH AMERICAN PARTNERS, BUT TRIMS AND MODELS CAN VARY BY MARKET
Canada and the USA may have one of the world’s most integrated auto sectors, with 2021 passenger vehicle imports into Canada from the USA worth USD27.8 billion and exports to the USA worth USD26.5 billion, yet trims and models can differ in either market.…
COUNTRIES OPPOSING RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE STRUGGLE TO AGREE WAY TO SPEND SANCTIONED MONEY AND PROPERTY
The list of Russian assets seized by its European and north American opponents grows ever larger, with super yachts joining bank accounts and expensive properties being sequestered. But could they be sold? Should they be sold? And should the money be spent on rebuilding Ukraine, if it drives out the Russian invader?…
CANADA AUTOMAKERS CALL FOR LESS REGULATORY COMPEXITY OVER ZEVs
The Canadian auto industry has warned the country’s provincial governments against pushing regulatory complexity over electric vehicle (EV) sales by retaining ambitious local sales mandates when the federal government is rolling out its own requirements for manufacturers. Canada’s Liberal federal government is developing detailed legislation that would implement a political commitment made earlier this year to insist that by 2035, all new light duty vehicles sales would be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by 2040.…
AML REPORTERS MUST BE OPEN TO LEARN WHEN CHOSING AN IT STRATEGY
With AML/CFT technology becoming ever more powerful and sophisticated, such as the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to process and analyse data, the pressure on AML-obliged bodies to update their information AML/CFT technology (IT) systems is growing.…
IRAN’S ROCKY BUT REWARDING COSMETICS MARKET
In recent years, Iranians have been driving growth in the Middle East’s cosmetics market, but worsening economic and political developments in Iran have restricted this growth. That has not deterred some personal care product companies, however, who continue to prosper in the country, whose market of 84 million people has significant potential.…
GOING AFTER THE ML PROS
Professional money launderers are exceedingly hard to catch, and – if convicted – are invariably replaced by other pros waiting in the wings. What more can be done to go after professional launderers?
Going by the estimates of the global scale of money laundering, and the low seizure rates – by some accounts 1%, by others (such as New Zealand AML specialist Ron Pol) less than 0.1% – efforts to curb the amounts of dirty money sloshing around the financial system are proving ineffective.…