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From boosting root growth to nicotine detection, weeding out carcinogens, cleansing filters and promoting sustainability and smart interaction with retailers and smokers, researchers are suggesting that the so-called ‘wonder material’ graphene has a plethora of uses within the tobacco industry.…

There is a growing global movement to align Islamic social finance with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (https://sdgs.un.org/goals), which are designed to address global environmental, social and economic challenges by 2030. These include combating poverty, inequality, climate change and environmental degradation and ensuring social justice.…

European Union (EU) member states are lagging in compliance with a requirement in the fifth anti-money laundering directive (5 AMLD) (1) to create public ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) registers by January 10, 2020. A European Commission webpage (2) on 5AMLD compliance last updated June 2 (2022) shows 12 governments are facing infringement proceedings either because they have not adopted legislation writing the directive fully into national law or because they have implemented it incorrectly.…

The European Parliament’ international trade committee has travelled to Dhaka to press the Bangladesh government to ensure that its country complies with 27 international labour, social and environmental conventions. This, MEPs will say, is needed for Bangladesh to qualify for the EU Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus’ (GSP) privileged trade access.…

The rapid escalation of Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis, causing its former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and resign, has had far-reaching implications for the country’s clothing and textile manufacturing sector, which plays a crucial role in the nation’s economy.…

Vendors continue to roll out what they claim are ever more powerful CDD/KYC systems, helping enable compliance with increasingly comprehensive ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) laws.

But do these technologies offer the AML community the potential to consider a new model – focusing on robust CDD by obliged entities, without the need to report STRs, and relying on better financed law enforcement to demand information via subpoenas to firm up ML cases?…

The central American and Dominican Republic clothing and textile sectors are lobbying against the United States scrapping the China 301 tariffs on finished apparel imports following a possible entente with Beijing, saying that the duties are helping encourage investments in their countries.…

With corporate fraud rising fast, “hiring for character as well as competence is now the hottest trend” in recruitment practice, Bruce Weinstein, a high-profile USA-based business ethics speaker has told Fraud Intelligence. Securing honest senior managers and board members matters, said the self-styled ‘The Ethics Guy’, who has worked for All State Insurance, the National Football League, Northrop Grumman, the South Carolina National Guard, and more: “It is not only possible to do this; it is essential,” Mr Weinstein stressed.…

Political pressure is mounting on the European Union (EU) to work harder and spent more on fighting fraud, with a European Parliament (EP) motion stressing that investments into fighting fraud saves more money than is lost to fraud and corruption when controls are too weak.…