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E-COMMERCE AND DIGITALISATION BOOM IN THE GULF
E-commerce and digitalisation have needed a good push to really get going in the Gulf. And this has happened through Covid-19. The pandemic has shoved digitalisation into widespread adoption amid an otherwise difficult economic environment.
In the Gulf’s two largest economies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), there has been a flurry of digital activity since the pandemic hit.…
ISLAMIC FINANCE FLOURISHES IN THE GULF AND SE ASIA
Islamic finance is flourishing across parts of the Middle East and south-east Asia. Assets are increasing, there is a greater diversification in product offerings, and Islamic fintech is starting to take off.
Islamic finance assets were estimated at USD2.88 trillion globally in 2020, and are forecast to grow at a CAGR of 5% to 2024, to reach USD3.69 trillion, according to New York-based research firm DinarStandard’s State of the Global Islamic Economy (SGIE) 2020-21 report.…
BREXIT TO SPELL COSTS AND DELAY FOR CAN MANUFACTURERS, SAY EXPERTS
THE UNITED Kingdom’s definitive exit from the European Union (EU) on December 31, 2020, after an 11-month transition period, will severely disrupt the UK and European can manufacturing industry, experts have told CanTech International. That said, industry figures acknowledge however that, by avoiding blanket tariffs and a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, the UK/EU Trade & Cooperation Agreement (TCA) (1) signed on Christmas Eve did head off economic disaster. …
SHIFTING AND VARIED LABELLING RULES ARE MAJOR COMPIANCE CHALLENGE FOR INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY BUSINESS
REGULATIONS affecting what information can, should and cannot be placed on personal care product packaging are among the most demanding of compliance issues facing beauty manufacturers.
One reason is that this is both a very international field and a dynamic one – rules change all the time and vary widely from market to market.…
UK UNIVERSITIES TURNING BLIND EYE TO NIGERIAN MONEY LAUNDERING ASSOCIATED WITH FOREIGN STUDENTS, SAYS REPORT
UK universities and private schools are turning a blind eye to Nigerian political elites laundering dirty money through their fees and support payments to their children, according to a paper published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sara Lewis and Samuel Okocha report.…
UK UNIVERSITIES TURNING BLIND EYE TO NIGERIAN MONEY LAUNDERING ASSOCIATED WITH FOREIGN STUDENTS, SAYS REPORT
UK universities and private schools are turning a blind eye to Nigerian political elites laundering dirty money through their fees and support payments to their children, according to a paper published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sara Lewis and Samuel Okocha report.…
BREXIT LEADS TO EXPORT RED TAPE HEADACHES FOR BRITISH CHEESEMAKERS
THE 11TH-HOUR trade deal UK and European Union (EU) negotiators struck last Christmas Eve reassured many dairy traders, but British cheesemakers now face major challenges. New expensive and complicated bureaucracy for UK-EU trades is fouling-up overseas dairy sales, and even pricing smaller companies out of the EU market.…
UK NEEDS HOLISTIC PUBLIC-PRIVATE CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY SAYS RUSI
The UK needs a dedicated cyber fraud strategy “underpinned with investment” and “designed and implemented with the support of UK business,” according to a February 22 paper from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for Defence and Security Studies. “Cyber fraud now accounts for most of the fraud committed in the UK,” stated Sneha Dawda, Ardi Janjeva and Anton Moiseienko in ‘The UK’s Response to Cyber Fraud A Strategic Vision’.…
GOVERNMENT LARGESSE TO EASE COVID-19 IMPACT TARGETED BY FRAUDSTERS
THE ONSET of Covid-19 has caused many fraud problems, but a particular difficulty has been fraudsters exploiting the unprecedented government largesse released designed to prevent economic collapse at the hands of the pandemic. In the UK, for instance, the House of Commons public accounts committee issued a report in October (2020), saying that Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) had reported 8,000 allegations from employees that their employers – supposed to pay a lower level of wages to staff to receive furlough payments under the UK Job Retention Scheme – had not actually made these payments, or paid less than they should.…
CHINA SLOWS EXODUS OF FABRIC MANUFACTURERS TO SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA – BUT REVERSAL MAY NOT LAST SAY EXPERTS
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic sparked predictions that the shift of textile industrial capacity from China to lower cost neighbouring countries could intensify, but analysts talking to Twist International say the trend may have stalled in the past year. While production capacity of China’s textile industry has indeed in recent years shifted to south and southeast Asia, some of these transfers have not run smoothly.…