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CANADIAN AUTO SECTOR AND POLITICIANS ACCEPT TAXPAYER COST OF BANKROLLING EV TRANSITION
The Canadian auto sector and governments appear united in saying the huge subsidies sunk into securing a Canadian dollars CAD7 billion (USD5.1 billion) Volkswagen battery plant in St Thomas, southern Ontario, make good commercial and economic sense.
The level of financing could indicate what the Canadian and Ontario governments will have to spend to persuade Stellantis to restart stalled work at its planned battery manufacturing plant in Windsor, across the border from Detroit.…
RUSSIA INVASION PUSHES COUNTER PROLIFERATION FINANCE (CFP) INTO MAINSTREAM OF AML/CFT CONTROLS
Counter Proliferation Financing (CPF) is becoming an increasingly important third goal of international policies and programmes designed to attack and reduce illicit financial movements. With concerns about the development of nuclear weapons by sanctioned regimes in North Korea and Iran growing, governments have been focusing on how to implement Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidance on CPF, which has been deepening since the global anti-money laundering and terror finance body in 2020 amended FATF Recommendation 1 and its Interpretive Note to require countries and entities to identify, assess, understand and mitigate their PF risks.…
ASIAN PAINT AND COATING REGULATORY ROUND-UP – INDONESIA MULLS BAN ON LEAD IN PAINTS
The Indonesian government is drafting a regulation to ban lead-based paints in the country, Markus Winarto, the secretary-general of the Indonesian Paint Manufacturers Association (APCI) has told PPCJ. The government has been under pressure from environmental health activists to take this step – one already taken in the Philippines, for example, but is facing some difficulties in finding alternatives for certain applications such as road markings and anti-corrosion coatings, said Winarto.…
RUSSIA INVASION PUSHES COUNTER PROLIFERATION FINANCE (CFP) INTO MAINSTREAM OF AML/CFT CONTROLS
Counter Proliferation Financing (CPF) is becoming an increasingly important third goal of international policies and programmes designed to attack and reduce illicit financial movements. With concerns about the development of nuclear weapons by sanctioned regimes in North Korea and Iran growing, governments have been focusing on how to implement Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidance on CPF, which has been deepening since the global anti-money laundering and terror finance body in 2020 amended FATF Recommendation 1 and its Interpretive Note to require countries and entities to identify, assess, understand and mitigate their PF risks.…
EU/WTO REGULATORY ROUND UP – GLOBAL DEAL ON FOOD TRADE STILL TARGETED AT WTO
Global negotiators continue to chase the dream of an international agreement on trading food and drink products, despite talks having continued, without agreement, since 2001. That was when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round of talks were launched, with the key goal of revamping the WTO agreement on agriculture, which covers food and drink.…
CHATGPT AND ITS VARIANTS OFFER COMMERCIAL CRIMINALS NEW WEAPON – BUT COMPANIES CAN USE AI FOR SECURITY TOO
The public deployment of large language models (LLMs) such as AI chatbot ChatGPT present potential crime risks, particularly for online fraud and cybercrime, as Europol has warned. On the flipside, such systems are bolstering the capabilities of AI to ward off cybercrimes, and to decipher what is real and what may be a deep-fake.…
HARVARD LAUNCHES DYNAMIC DATAMAP LINKING AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Harvard University has launched a data map highlighting mismatches and matches across the USA between higher education graduates and job opportunities, to help encourage career-relevant HE investment.
The College-to-Jobs Initiative was developed with the support of market data company Lightcast and financial service Capital One.…
KENYA PUSHES AHEAD AS EAST AFRICA’S PAINT SECTOR POWERHOUSE
Kenya remains east Africa’s economic powerhouse and its ability to supply and encourage the region’s paint and coatings sector remains strong. Sales in paints, varnishes, pigments and other related coatings are expected to grow by 2.86% annually until 2028, according to insights from Statista (1), a Germany-based provider of market intelligence and business solutions.…
MANUFACTURERS AND RESEARCHERS EXPLORE INTEGRATION OF SUPER-MATERIAL GRAPHENE INTO NONWOVENS
The highly versatile material graphene is becoming increasingly popular in a variety of health and safety uses in nonwoven products, despite calls for further research to be conducted to assess its long-term impact on toxicity in humans and the environment.
Demand for graphene’s powerful antimicrobial and filtration qualities grew sharply during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially for incorporation in nonwoven masks.…
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – DETAILED EU KNITWEAR INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS RULES BY BECOME TOUGHER
The European Union (EU) knitwear sector is preparing to follow new detailed ‘best available techniques’ (BAT) on reducing industrial emissions as the EU considers revised legislation that might tell national regulators to take a hard line on their implementation. The European Commission has proposed a new EU industrial emissions directive that – as drafted – would tell industrial regulators to set limits on BAT-associated emissions levels “at the strictest achievable level for the specific installation” (1).…