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Edward Sloan Founding Partner London, Rooney Nimmo GDPR is coming. Don’t get caught out. Will the European Union’s new data regulation affect you? If you do business in the European Union (“EU”) or offer products or services to EU citizens, the answer is very likely yes. While a discussion on Brexit is beyond the scope…
BJSS, a member of BritishAmerican Business, is awarded the Queen’s Prize for Enterprise. Please click here to read the full story in City A.M.
Steve Harper Executive Director, International Business, Invest Northern Ireland Tech culture propels FDI growth in Northern Ireland The harnessing of industry, academia and government in building solution-focused ecosystems, allows Northern Ireland to offer inward investors a unique proposition especially in technology sectors. When BT announced the opening of the new £28.6 million BT Ireland Innovation…
The following is a speech delivered by the Hon Liam Fox, UK Secretary of State for Trade, before the Commonwealth Business Forum on the UK’s ambition to become the foremost global champion of free trade. Hello and let me add my welcome to London, and to the Commonwealth Business Forum. It is great to see so…
Background of GDPR GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. In January 2012, the European Commission started making plans to reform data protection across the European Union (EU) in order to make Europe more secure for the digital age. Nearly four years later, an agreement was reached on what would be involved and how it would…
Beth Elliott Senior Manager Custodian banks serve a critical function in financial markets through their safekeeping activities. At their core, they provide securities and cash accounts for clients and administrative services such as processing payments, client reporting, corporate action processing, fund administration and accounting services, depository receipts services and transfer agency services. Custodians also provide…
Robin Oldham Head of Security Advisory & Technical Services Not GDPR – the other Directive you need to know about There’s been an awful lot written, said and done recently about GDPR, and all the noise is at least partly justified: It affects the majority of businesses and organisations, there’s a hard deadline for compliance,…
Curtis D. Best Partner International Tax Provisions in the U.S. Tax Reform Bill In a move to a territorial tax regime, the new U.S. tax reform bill that was passed into law late last year makes significant changes to the taxation of foreign income. All shareholders of foreign corporations – both U.S. and non-U.S. individuals…
Andrew Morawski President and Country Chairman, Vodafone Americas Today’s Connected Employee: What the CIO Needs to Know Enterprise businesses operate in an increasingly complex landscape today. Many factors are changing the enterprise environment and disrupting business – for example, socioeconomics, new regulations and new technologies all play a role in changing how business is conducted.…
Brexit Travel: Effects for British Business Travellers March 29, 2019 — the day when the United Kingdom is scheduled to complete the Brexit process and exit the European Union — may seem far away but not when you consider all the complex negotiations involved as an entire region essentially divorces 27 countries. There are still…