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UK BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP VOTE ALARMS OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
A VOTE by the UK parliament to insist that Britain’s overseas territories introduce publicly available beneficial ownership registers by December 31, 2020, has sparked anger and dismay within these autonomous, mainly small island, jurisdictions.
An amendment to a UK Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill requires the British government to impose such registers on its OTs by this deadline, if the local administrations have not created their own.…
EXPERTS REFINE FORENSIC LINGUISTICS TO DETECT FRAUD
TECHNIQUES for using forensic linguistics to detect fraud continue to be refined as experts debate the best and most reliable way to use such technology and practices. Indeed, specialists continue to disagree over how forensic linguistics should be used in the anti-fraud arena.…
IRISH EXPORTERS LOOK TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE BREXIT TRADE TAXES
The prospect of significant hikes in taxes and administrative red tape on Irish exports and imports travelling through the UK to and from the rest of Europe once Britain leaves the European Union (EU), has prompted Irish exporters to seek more options for direct maritime trade.…
SLUGGISH UK PAINT AND COATING MARKET SET FOR REBOUND, THANKS TO GROWING AUTO SECTOR
AFTER years of sluggish growth and even contraction, the UK paint and coatings sector is set to rebound this year thanks to a booming domestic automotive manufacturing sector. However, this optimism has yet to be felt across the sector due to uncertainly the industry is facing ahead of Brexit.…
GRAPHENE TEXTILES BOOST SPORTS PERFORMANCE AS RESEARCH INTO NEW SUPER-MATERIAL PUSHES AHEAD
WITH boasts of being the strongest, thinnest, most flexible material that is also super-lightweight and an excellent thermal and electronic conductor, the ‘wonder material’ graphene is finding its properties a game changer in the sporting arena – including at last month’s Winter Olympics (February).…
UK SCRAMBLES TO PREPARE FOR EURATOM EXIT – NUCLEAR INVESTMENT AND RECRUITMENT MAY FALTER
EXPERTS on Britain’s civil nuclear industry have warned that the UK is running out of time to prepare itself for the country’s exit from European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), due to the complexity of replicating its nuclear standards in UK law. …
UK RURAL LAND MARKET SLOWS DOWN AFTER ALMOST 150% RISE OVER DECADE
THE BULL run in the British rural land market is over, or at least has slowed to a trot. After rising by 149% over the 10 years to 2016, research by the property consultancy Carter Jonas indicates that that the value of British (UK, excluding Northern Ireland) farmland fell by more than 8% last year.…
DEMAND FOR INNOVATIVE AERONAUTICAL TEXTILES DRIVEN BY LIGHTWEIGHTING DEMAND TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS
THE FUTURE of materials in this carbon-averse world is all about lightweighting. But quality and safety must be maintained. Nowhere is this truer than with the aerospace textiles segment, where durability, toughness and flexibility is allied with low weights, of importance when civil aviation operators are under pressure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.…
BANKS STRUGGLE TO MANAGE AN EFFECTIVE AND SOPHISTICATED DERISKING POLICY
THE DE-RISKING by banks of their correspondent banking relationships is a long-standing problem and is today becoming a truly global phenomenon. From the Caribbean to the Pacific Islands, to Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, banks have lost correspondent relationships with international financial institutions.…
ICAO TO CONSIDER COMPREHENSIVE EXPANSION OF WORLD WEATHER DATA SERVICE
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is to discuss enriching the weather forecasts supplied to airlines, airports and air traffic controllers through the World Area Forecast System (WAFS), so that pilots have much more detailed data available to avoid turbulence and tap stronger tail winds.…