Indonesia’s hopes of wooing investments from foreign companies seeking to diversify their supply chains away from China are hampered by its stifling bureaucracy and restrictive rules, analysts say, in contrast with its more nimble regional rivals. As trade tensions between China and the West continue to push companies to adopt a “China plus one” strategy … Read more
The U.S. Department of Defense introduced new cybersecurity requirements for companies that contract with the federal government. The Pentagon said that its new rules, dubbed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), will aim to simplify the process of getting certified to do government contract work while also assuring the DOD that a company is up to … Read more
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Mstyslav Chernov, via Wikimedia Commons Hamster idiom credit: Adam Sharp (Thanks to Zoe Gardner for discussion of the case; the following analysis is my own) Introduction Remember the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015-16? One part of the EU’s response to it was to negotiate a … Read more
Do European fiscal rules make it easier for governments to “sell” spending cuts to their voters? Drawing on a survey experiment in Italy, Alessia Aspide finds such rules have little impact on domestic support for austerity policies. The NextGenerationEU initiative, launched amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with its focus on investments, represented a ground-breaking departure from … Read more
Yesterday was a big day for UK consumers when the new rules on compensating victims of authorised push payment fraud (APP fraud) came into force. APP fraud is when consumers are tricked into sending money to the fraudster. It can happen in various ways, e.g. via impersonation fraud, romance fraud or email takeover fraud. The … Read more
