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At a time when footwear companies are moving to tap high-quality and high-added value segments and niche markets, such as vegan shoes, attention is now turning to the sales potential being offered for sales of footwear that is halal-certified in wealthy non-Muslim majority markets such as Europe and north America.…

Fraud investigators need to spend less time pretending to be a TV detective and more time being their authentic selves when probing scams, a former instructor at the USA’s Inspector General Criminal Investigator Academy (IGCIA) has stressed to Fraud Intelligence.

In an interview, Mark Anderson, of Anderson Investigative Associates (AIA), who has also worked at the USA department of justice and the department of homeland security’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Centre, said: “We have to have a consistency in who we are.…

The international growth of media content focused on Muslim cultural and Islamic religious interests is burgeoning, with companies expanding the reach of their output across national borders, developing an increasingly comprehensive ecosystem of programming delivered by broadcasting and internet-based apps.

The opening of the Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) bureau of the Annahar Al Arabi digital news platform in January (2022) is one example of such cross-border growth, highlighting an appetite for regionally-relevant content in the Gulf region.…

Businesses and government agencies continue to face a barrage of attacks from cyber-criminals, which have continued unabated in the past year, keeping up the pressure of frauds and hacks that have increased since Covid-19 spread worldwide in March 2020.

Organisations around the world faced more cyberattacks than ever before in 2021, say some data collectors.…

The global market for halal nutraceutical products, including vitamins and wellbeing supplements, is set to double over the next 10 years, according to new research. A report from Dubai-based Future Market Insights (https://www.futuremarketinsights.com/reports/halal-nutraceuticals-and-vaccines-market), published last July (2021), predicted sales of these products would increase from USD58.01 billion in 2021 to USD116.38 billion by 2031.…

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The growth in digital textile printing across the Americas has created a surge in demand for a wide range of digital inks, which is spreading into Latin America as well as north America. The adaptability and broad uses of digital inks, for garments, household products, technical textiles, and more, fits the diversity of the textile sector in the Americas, which spans higher wage industries such as US textile production to lower cost manufacture in central America.…

HALAL food producers from Bosnia & Herzegovina (B&H) are increasingly their competitiveness in European regional and worldwide food markets. This country, with 3.2 million inhabitants (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=BA), of which more than 50% are Muslims, in 2006 established an Agency for Halal Quality Certification (https://www.halal.ba/index.php/en/pocetna/o-agenciji),…

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ACCOUNTING used to be restricted to financially measurable matters of profit and loss; expenditure and revenue; taxes and subsidies; investment and liabilities. But the mathematical and statistical skills underpinning a solid set of books and filed accounts are today increasingly being used to measure the environmental and social sustainability of a product, input, production process and supply chain.…

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The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a reassessment of the model of relying on one or two outsourcing locations. It has demonstrated that when there is a major disruption caused by an emergency as serious as a pandemic, shipping and industrial processing can be disrupted.…

Populism, the force that elected Donald Trump to the US presidency in 2016, is not a new creed – representing, as it does, a distrust by the mass of voters of political and business elites. Indeed, in America, a formal ‘People’s Party’, also called the Populists, was formed in 1892 and ran in that year’s presidential election, with some success, gathering 8.5% of the vote.…