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SINGAPORE LAUNCHES FINANCIAL SECTOR/REGULATORY GROUP TO FIGHT MONEY LAUNDERING
A GOVERNMENT-industry partnership has been launched to strengthen Singapore’s fight against money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF). The country’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Singapore Police Force have created an Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Industry Partnership (ACIP).…
SINGAPORE LAUNCHES FINANCIAL SECTOR/REGULATORY GROUP TO FIGHT MONEY LAUNDERING
A GOVERNMENT-industry partnership has been launched to strengthen Singapore’s fight against money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF). The country’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Singapore Police Force have created an Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Industry Partnership (ACIP).…
TIDE OF CHINESE MONEY LAUNDERING CHANGES – WITH FLOWS FROM EUROPE TO CHINA GROWING
A case detected last May (2015) at Lisbon international airport, Portugal, says much for the worrying scale of the laundering of illicit funds from Europe into mainland China. A nondescript Chinese couple travelling from Lisbon to Shanghai via the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Dubai was stopped carrying more than EUR1 million in large denomination notes found elaborately wrapped in ‘danger, chemicals’ packaging within packets marked ‘FRAGILE’.…
THE BIG BOOST IN EU PIG MEAT EXPORT MIGHT NOT LAST FOR LONG
EUROPEAN Union (EU) pig meat producers were big winners in boosting export sales over between last March (2016) and February (2017), according to the European Commission, with receipts rising by more than 33% compared to the same period last year. The EU pigmeat sector earned EUR5.4 billion in export earnings from March 2016 to February 2017, EUR1.35 billion more than the same period in the previous year, leading the United States and Canada as the second and third most important pigmeat exporters, reported EU statistical agency Eurostat.…
RANA PLAZA DISASTER HAS PROMPTED SERIOUS SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS – BUT MUCH WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE, MEETING HEARS
Just a little over four years after the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in April 2013, key participants in the global garment supply chain met in New York City to assess progress in protecting garment worker safety.…
JAPAN’S NH FOODS PLOTS LATIN AMERICAN EXPANSION THROUGH URUGUAY ACQUISITION
Japan’s NH Foods Ltd is to buy Uruguayan major meat processing company Breeders & Packers Uruguay SA (BPU) to increase its meat supply capacity in emerging markets, notably in Asia, and to tap the major mature beef consumption markets in North America and Europe.…
ICAO CYBER-SECURITY DECLARATION CALLS FOR OUTLAWING OF WEB ATTACKS ON CIVIL AVIATION
A FORMAL International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) ‘Dubai Declaration’ on boosting cyber-security in civil aviation has been approved at an inaugural Cyber Summit and Exhibition staged by the UN agency in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The declaration says that member states should outlaw cyber-threats targeted at civil aviation.…
TRUMP TRADE POLICY IS WILDCARD AS NORTH AMERICA FACES GROWING MARKETS FOR TECHNICAL TEXTILES – AT HOME AND ABROAD
Political uncertainty over US trade deals sparked by the ascension of President Donald Trump to power should be eased to avoid stifling innovation in the country’s technical textiles industry which could see it marginalised on the world stage, insiders have warned.…
POLICE AND COMPANIES FLOCK WORLDWIDE TO JOIN EUROPOL’S RANSOMWARE PROJECT
A SIGNIFICANT number of law enforcement and private partners have joined European police cooperation body Europol’s global ‘No more ransom’ project, designed to halt the growing threat of ransomware. There are now 76 participants in the project, which was launched last July (2016) by the Dutch National Police, Europol, IT firm Intel Security and cybercrime specialists Kaspersky Lab.…
USD2.7 BILLION IN SAO PAOLO PROPERTY LINKED TO OFFSHORE FIRMS
A Transparency International (TI) investigation has found 3,452 properties in São Paulo, Brazil, worth at least USD2.7 billion are linked to 236 companies registered offshore, raising red flags about the use of real estate for money laundering in Brazil’s largest city. …