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European Union (EU) ministers have debated developing a European degree system at an informal meeting of higher education and research ministers in Budapest, Hungary on Monday and Tuesday (September 16/17), although the meeting was overshadowed by an ongoing row about Hungary’s access to EU education programmes.…

Venezuela, whose July presidential election has been contested by its political opposition as fraudulent, is facing an increase in financial controls having been grey listed by FATF this June (2024). This was over failures to respond to the global body’s requests for improvements in AML/CFT.…

The paint markets of the Levant – Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine (now recognised by the UN as a state, even though it has no unified governance) – are all reeling from ongoing conflict and economic instability. The more developed and export-orientated markets of Lebanon and Israel are however releasing new innovative paint products.…

The Argentina tobacco leaf sector is optimistic about its 2025 season (February to April), thanks to the policies launched by the government of the libertarian and right-wing outsider President Javier Milei, who took office last December (2023), and growing international demand.…

Terms of reference for a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation have been agreed by an ad hoc UN committee, including integrating commitments on tackling tax avoidance and tax evasion, plus equitable taxation of multinationals. A UN member state-led negotiating committee will now meet in 2025, 2026 and 2027 for at least three sessions per year to complete and submit a final text to the UN general assembly for approval.…

Amid growing calls for higher performance adhesives to drive forward the renewable energy sector, their ability to extend the life of equipment and aid in their dismantling are proving just as valuable.

Indeed, a key research focus is on such adhesives’ debonding qualities.…

The international can manufacturing and filling industry is continuing to face increasing regulatory pressure regarding certain food contact chemicals, which while protecting cans against corrosion, may also harm consumer health and the environment.

Dubbed by environmental groups as ‘forever chemicals’ because they take so long to degrade, these substances include bisphenols, phthalates and PFAS (per and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances).…

There are undoubtedly vast amounts of data available through cryptocurrency blockchains for AML/CFT/CFP compliance, supervision and law enforcement, making increasingly available and sophisticated assessment tools more valuable.

Yong Li, Anti‑Money Laundering Advisor, for Canada-based consultancy The AMLShop, told MLB of the available crypto-ledger data: “Up to the end of last month, for Bitcoin it’s 596 gigabytes [GB] and for the Ethereum it is about 1,100 GB.…

Women today lead half of the Netherlands’ 14 senior research universities, the first time this has happened, a new report issued as the country starts its new academic year has claimed.

A Dutch News report (1) stressed how last year Nijmegen’s Radboud University appointed José Sanders, professor of communication, as its first rector magnificus, equivalent to chancellor https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/news/jose-sanders-appointed-new-rector-of-radboud-university-nijmegen…

THE EUROPEAN and international dyeing sector will effectively lose the ability to use inks manufactured using solvents made with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under new European Union (EU) measures to ban fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases). These are considered 100 to 24,000 times more harmful to the climate than carbon dioxide, and hence controls are tightening.…