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A year ago, the Money Laundering Bulletin put forward a broadly upbeat assessment of the prospects for legislation to create effective registers of beneficial ownership in the world’s leading financial centres – a must for those attempting to fight money laundering.…

The Money Laundering Bulletin has assessed the impact of western financial sanctions on Russia – looking at the impact on anti-money laundering regulation – but what of the compliance demands on financial institutions?

These sanctions are complex, showing how governments can increase the risk of making honest citizens and organisations break the law by imposing complex financial regulations.…

Jordan maybe a small country – with a population of just 6.6 million people, but it is one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the Middle East. A key reason is that production is export focused, particularly of generics. The country’s USD500 million-a-year turnover manufacturing sector had been steadily growing at 8% to 10% per year until 2012, according to the Jordanian Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Medical Appliances (JAPM).…

If the 2013 and 2014 were all about the rise of South Korean personal care product brands in China, then 2015 was the year that regional currency wars and weaker economic sentiment at home dictated how Chinese consumers spent on cosmetics and toiletries.…

The rise of hipsters and the appeal of the bearded lumberjack look, dubbed ‘lumbersexual’, in recent years has led to a rapid growth in beard and moustache care products sector worldwide. Specialty products such as beard oil and conditioners, as well as tools such as beard brushes, have become necessities for many men with facial hair.…

Bangladesh’s knitting industry faces key changes in the next 20 years as the western-educated children of first-generation businessmen take over family-owned firms. Industry experts note that some second-generation entrepreneurs have already taken the reins of major knitwear companies and are introducing modern management practices and discovering new financing channels.…

Changing textile and other input suppliers may be fraught with difficulties, but it is key to the role of any clothing buyer.
“It can be extremely difficult,” said Emma Wilson, buyer for UK-based specialist sourcing agency Smartway. “There are issues such as quality, lead-times and monitoring the supplier.”…

The organizer of a 3D print fashion show in New York has told just-style there will be major changes in fashion industry supply chain because of this new technology. Currently, its development is in its early stages, but Natacha Alpert, the director and curator of the 3D Print Fashion Show, on Thursday (April 16) in New York City, predicts in 10 to 15 years, consumers will be able to completely customise their clothing and print them at home, bypassing retail manufacturers altogether.…

In 2008, the then-emerging Chinese dairy market was delivered a devastating blow by the ‘melamine scandal’. It was triggered by New Zealand dairy cooperative Fonterra’s local partner Sanlu fraudulently adding melamine, a raw material used in the production of plastics, into its dairy products in order to pretend higher protein content.…

When one authoritarian government after another fell following mass uprisings in the Middle East in 2011, there was optimism that this would usher in an era of greater publishing freedoms. But as the ‘Arab Spring’ enters its fifth year, with conflict in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, book sales have dropped and censorship has rebounded.…