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ISSB PUSHES FOR ITS STANDARDS TO BE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING GLOBAL BASELINE
Speaking at the event on Friday (Feb 17), Mark Carney, UN special envoy for climate action and finance, and former central bank governor for the UK and Canada, said of the baseline: “It’s critical. You need compatible information.”
Mr Carney stressed ongoing discussions between the ISSB and major jurisdictions, such as the EU (European Union), the USA and Japan, about the need for regulatory harmony.…
THE OUTSOURCING/NEARSOURCING/RESHORING STRUGGLE WITHIN THE PROTECTIVE AND PERFORMANCE TEXTILE SEGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a reassessment of the model of relying on one or two outsourcing locations. It has demonstrated that when there is a major disruption caused by an emergency as serious as a pandemic, shipping and industrial processing can be disrupted.…
JAPAN’S NASCENT HALAL FOOD SECTOR STRUGGLES TO KEEP AFLOAT THROUGH COVID-19 PANDEMIC, BUT EYES SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Japan may become a significant market for the halal food sector in future, predicts the Japan Halal Association, whose members are looking ahead to sustained growth once the Covid-19 pandemic ebbs. Faslin Mohammed Lafir, head of halal certification and international relations, of the Japan Halal Association, stressed that the country’s Muslim population is around 120,000 individuals at present, with an estimated 10,000 Japanese converting to the religion every year, boosting potential halal sales.…
THE POTENTIAL OF ITALY’S HALAL FOOD MARKET EMERGING POST-PANDEMIC
When France’s fast-food chain O’Tacos (www.o-tacos.fr) announced in 2020 that it would be selling in Italy its halal-certified French-style meat and vegetable wraps, Italian Muslims took this as a sign that halal was going mainstream in their country. O’Tacos’ first Italian outpost will open in January 2022 in Rome (delayed by Covid-19) and more openings in 2022 are planned in major Italian cities, including Milan and Bologna, said Yassin Baradai, founder of Milan-based Meem Communication (https://meemcommunication.com/…
HALOODIES SET TO RECOVER FROM THE PANDEMIC WITH GLOBAL EXPANSION PLANS
London-based Haloodies (https://haloodies.com/), which claims to be “one of the UK’s most trusted suppliers of Halal meats”, has fought against challenges posted by the Covid-19 outbreak and Brexit though expanding its online sales and reshoring production to Britain. Now, its co-founder and CEO says the company is ready to tap global markets.…
MALAYSIA LEADS IN THE STANDARDIZATION OF HALAL MEDICAL DEVICES
Malaysia is expected to launch in January a detailed (although voluntary) halal certification for medical devices in an innovative regulatory move, making the country a world leader in this segment.
Its government published a halal medical device standard in September 2019, known as MS2636, but the halal division of the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (JAKIM) agency has since been enhancing “their online system” and staff, since the new “scheme for halal medical devices must comply with other requirements”, Johari Ab Latiff, senior assistant director at JAKIM’s Malaysia Halal Council Secretariat, told Salaam Gateway.…
UNIVERSITIES ARE MAGNET FOR INTERNATIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING – SPECIAL REPORT
Higher education institutions are being warned they could be a target for money laundering, with fees being financed by the proceeds of crime, including corruption, which might also buy property, cars and other items for students.
The problem has been highlighted in a series of reports.…
FORMER UNDERCOVER DEA INVESTIGATOR SAYS CULTURE SHIFTS ARE NEEDED TO PROMOTE LONG-TERM PROBES ON ML PROS
A former DEA agent who laundered money undercover to attack the Medellín and Cali cartels has called for a root-and-branch reform of AML, so that its vast resources target the most suspicious transactions and the professional launderers who facilitate them. Speaking to MLB, Robert Mazur, who offered ML services to drug kingpins such as Pablo Escobar in the 1980s and 1990s to undermine their criminal networks, said that many laundering techniques used then are still in use today.…
REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC POPULISM
Populism, the force that elected Donald Trump to the US presidency in 2016, is not a new creed – representing, as it does, a distrust by the mass of voters of political and business elites. Indeed, in America, a formal ‘People’s Party’, also called the Populists, was formed in 1892 and ran in that year’s presidential election, with some success, gathering 8.5% of the vote.…
TRUMP LOST AN ELECTION BECAUSE OF PERSONAL ENMITY NOT POLICY – BUT WILL HIS REAL ACHIEVEMENTS SURVIVE HIS DEFEAT?
Every four years, the presidential US election reminds the world that democracy can work – that even the leader of the world’s most powerful country can lose power at the hands of voters. Sure, there is some repetition – today’s losers in Washington are those who won in 2016.…