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COULD digital textile printing help bring the Australian textile and clothing manufacturing sector back to sustainable growth? There are experts who believe this scaleable finishing technology can give Australian design talent room to thrive.

Faced with the proximity of China’s manufacturing juggernaut, it is no surprise that mass textile and clothing manufacturing declines in Australia, but digital technologies are giving the industry a chance to find new niches.…

THE CHINESE government has directly targeted the American confectionery and related ingredients sector in its latest tit-for-tat response in the trade wars launched by US President Donald Trump. Beijing has highlighted these goods as products that may become subject to retaliatory tariffs, should the USA impose a threatened third list of duties on Chinese tech, drafted over alleged thefts of American IP.…

They say the UK can forge its own future by negotiating bespoke trade deals that reflect British interests rather than those of Brussels. But the more comprehensive deals Britain strikes, the more its room to manoeuvre will shrink – because all its trading partners (who are also striking deals with each other) will have to agree the same or similar terms for such deals to work.…

WITH inflexible rules-based transaction monitoring systems built from a range of legacy systems still dominating the anti-money laundering (AML) landscape, excessive numbers of false positives are causing “mayhem” in the financial services sector, Luca Primerano, now chief AI officer at AML solutions provider Fortytwo Data in London, has claimed.…

MORE than GBP2 billion (USD2,5 billion) has been lost by UK victims of cryptocurrency this summer alone, new figures reveal.

Action Fraud, the UK’s national fraud and cyber crime reporting centre, has warned against investing in “get rich quick schemes” in mining and trading in cryptocurrencies after a total of 203 reports of fraud were recorded in between June 1 and July 31 with the average of loss per claim of GBP10,095 (USD12,900).…

A SERIES of new counter-fraud initiatives will be funded by a GBP6.1 million government cash injection to the UK’s City of London Police, Britain’s national lead force for economic crime issues. A national taskforce to enhance regional work on fraud investigation will be launched and a campaign to recruit direct entrant fraud detectives – from outside the police service – will help increase skills.…

BEAUTY product labelling and decoration might not be the most obvious way for a brand to boost sustainability, but such is the pressure to green-up, such considerations are being woven into product appearance.

Edinburgh, Scotland-based UWI Technology Ltd is a case in point.…

ENDING UP an entrepreneur was perhaps Arif Al Islam’s “Plan B”, but the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)-qualified financial professional has more than proved his business smarts.

“I had to build the company from a scratch,” says Mr Islam, who is now managing director and chief executive officer of Dhaka-based fibre optics major Summit Communications Ltd.…

UK and remaining European Union (EU) food producers are becoming increasingly anxious about the prospect of Britain crashing out of the EU single market without a replacement trade deal. It is a scenario that could leave British manufacturers facing crippling tariffs, border delays and reams of red tape.…

THE LONG-delayed Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport (BER) is still under construction and the project may need another EUR500. However, no decision has been made about where the money will be sourced and two of the airport’s major shareholders (the states of Berlin and Brandenburg – 37% each) do not want to use further public funds.…