Trump to play a big role in shaping China policies
Protectionist policies may hamper growth of the Asian economic giant...
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China critic to be US trade negotiator
Trump names Robert Lighthizer for the position...
Italy to push for ties with Iran
Remains undaunted by Trump’s election as US president IFM Correspondent November 24, 2016: In a rebuttal to US president-elect Donald Trump, Italy’s industry minister pledged to support business deals with Iran potentially worth billions of dollars. Iran re-joined the global business scene in January this year after the US decided to lift sanctions on the...
Italy to push for ties with Iran
Remains undaunted by Trump’s election as US president IFM Correspondent November 24, 2016: In a rebuttal to US president-elect Donald Trump, Italy’s industry minister pledged to support business deals with Iran potentially worth billions of dollars. Iran re-joined the global business scene in January this year after the US decided to lift sanctions on the...
Trump plans to quit Pacific deal
But silent on Obamacare and building a wall along the border of US and Mexico IFM Correspondent November 23, 2016: President-elect Donald Trump says US will quit Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal on his first day in office. The TPP trade deal was signed by 12 countries which together cover 40% of the world’s economy....
EU and Canada sign historic free trade agreement
CETA was almost derailed by objections from the Wallonia region in Belgium November 4, 2016: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Brussels on the weekend to attend an EU-Canada Summit which had been delayed for three days because of opposition in Belgium to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Belgium came back to...
Canadian economy at stake over landmark trade deal with EU
Canada and the EU remain hopeful that CETA, the EU’s most ambitious free trade deal, can still go through IFM Correspondent October 25, 2016: The Canadian economy has been facing a serious slump due to a number of reasons. To add to its woes, negotiations over a key trade deal – the Comprehensive Economic and...
Enforcing debt when trading with Eurozone customers
Implications of Brexit and the importance of a carefully designed risk management strategy Sophie Brackenbury September 19, 2016: Our commercial dispute resolution team was recently instructed to advise on the enforcement of a debt owed to a German business (our client) by a UK company, as part of our debt recovery service. The outcome was...
Dun & Bradstreet launches cloud-based D&B Credit
Will enable financial decision makers to mitigate risks and identify growth opportunities July 26, 2016: Dun & Bradstreet has launched D&B Credit, the next generation risk management platform for trade credit in the UK and Ireland. The cloud-based platform gives finance teams dynamic, intuitive access to the world’s largest commercial database, with over 250 million...
Brexit presents big opportunities for the UK
It will now be able to embrace more market-friendly policies Suparna Goswami Bhattacharya July 13, 2016: While many of us would like to believe that the UK is in a mess, thanks to Brexit, what we all tend to ignore is the upside opportunities that Britain will now have. There are legitimate reasons to believe that...