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FINANCIAL institutions and other anti-money laundering reporting sectors within Vietnam have had to grapple, since January 1, with a revised Penal Code, which has changed how money laundering is defined in criminal law.

In its 2018, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), the USA State Department notes that this “revises the money laundering offence and adds criminal liability for legal persons involved in money laundering.”…

With the USA re-imposing sanctions on Iran, and international financial institutions wary of dealing with the country, Tehran is dusting off its pre-2015 sanctions-busting playbook. Old networks are being renewed, including with neighbouring countries and China, but there are more obstacles for the Iranian government to contend with this time around.…

New smaller banks competing with established players and other payment service providers (PSPs) are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their use of fintech to addressing anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) financial crime compliance.

David Carlisle, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, told Money Laundering Bulletin that anecdotal evidence suggests that these so-called ‘challenger’ banks and PSPs are increasingly using third-party fintech suppliers to help them address know your customer (KYC) requirements, transaction monitoring, record-keeping and suspicious activity reporting.…

SRI LANKA’S knitwear industry is insisting that despite the country’s current political turmoil over who should lead its government, its business is operating smoothly, noting that it had managed to maintain commerce during the country’s 26 years-long civil war that ended in 2009.…

THE ONGOING trade dispute between the USA and China could accelerate an existing trend of American apparel brands shifting their sourcing away from Chinese suppliers. Indeed, US fashion industry representatives were warned at a conference earlier this week that they need to prepare to establish new trading relationships in case Sino-American trading gets tougher still.…

FOREIGN direct investments (FDI) into Malaysia’s promising garment and textile sector are set to rise further this year on the back of strong performance in 2017, an official from the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) has told just-style.

“Within the six months from January to June 2018, the total investments in the sector reached [Malaysian Ringgit] MYR244.8 million (USD58.73 million) of which FDI accounted for MYR112million (USD26.87 million),” a spokesperson from MIDA said.…

Already a world-leader in terms of knitted products for the sports clothing and outdoors-wear sectors, Japan’s Descente Ltd this July opened a state-of-the-art research and development centre that the company anticipates will help it create “the world’s fastest high-performance wear”.

According to the Osaka-based company, the new initiative is built on the concept of being “fast”.…

AFRICAN garment and textile manufacturers have a long way to go to increase capacity, develop the supply chain and diversify overall production away from North Africa, an industry conference staged in Cairo has been told. But while north Africa accounts for more than USD10 billion out the continent’s USD13.54 billion in clothing and textile exports (during 2016, according to international trade data), the much discussed potential of Africa as the world’s next sourcing hub is starting to materialise.…

THE DRAFT UK/European Union withdrawal agreement released yesterday (Wednesday, November 14), could create separate national food regulators for Northern Ireland that are based in a remaining EU member state. A technical annexe to the deal says that “national reference laboratories” with responsibility for advising on a wide range of food legislation in Northern Ireland “shall not be read as including the reference laboratory in the United Kingdom”.…

The coming change of control of the United States House of Representative from the ruling Republicans to the opposition Democrats will probably do little to stop the escalating tariff disputes between the USA and China, the American fashion industry has been warned.…