“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By: Ainsley Brown Hedge Funds, a business synonymous with offshore and often tropical locals is witnessing a surprising trend in the European Union (EU). Are you ready for this? Ok, one word: onshoring. With the passage of the controversial EU Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive last year, many a fund have abandoned offshore locations such as the British Virgin Islands,
By: Ainsley Brown On the go but want to check if that hot new stock tip you got is Shari’ah compliant? Well now you can – Shari’ah compliance has gone mobile. Amiri S3 or Shari’ah Screening System is a downloadable Blackberry application that allows its users to check over 38,000 stocks from all over the world to determine Shari’ah compliance.
By: Ainsley Brown Listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) could become a much quicker process in 2011 if several of the leading investment banks in the UK follow through with their plans. It currently takes five weeks generally to go from a company announcing its intention to list to it being placed on the LSE – the banks
By: Ainsley Brown Talk about kicking off the New Year with a bang: it is official as of January 1, 2011 Australia now has its first national Consumer Law. The new law ushers in a comprehensive national consumer protection regime that mandates quick remedies – repair, replace, refund – to customer complaints. It replaces a patchwork of 20 national, State
By Emma Peart Recently a bill named the Daylight Saving Bill has passed through the initial stages of Government voting. The bill effectively suggests the changing of time within the UK away from Greenwich Mean Time(GMT). The proposal is to change to Continental time, whereby in the spring the UK would have GMT plus two hours – also known as
By Emma Peart A new deal has been announced that could open up the intellectual property market. The European Patent Office has announced that it is arranging a deal that will ease the translation of Patents. Part of the well known Google name consists of an on-line translation service named “Google Translate”. Perhaps spotting the potential benefits to protecting intellectual
By: Ainsley Brown Are you an entrepreneur? Are you British? Do you have the resources to commercialize patented materials? If you answered yes to the above questions then the University of Glasgow wants to talk to you. In a move that could spur innovation in the UK through the development and increased use of collaborative ecosystems between universities and enterprise,
By: Ainsley Brown A large part of managing one’s brand is protecting that brand – this axiom is as true for the mom and pop operation as it is for a multimillion dollar operation. While this protection may come in many forms it often; and cynics may say all too often, in the form of litigation. The intellectual property– creating,
By: Emma Peart China has recently offered more protection through Patents. It has offered protection in Patents since 1985 but has recently began to take the issue more seriously. China’s new legislation in relation to Patent Law came into force on 1st October 2009 with corresponding implementing regulations issued in February 2010. This can only be seen as a good thing
By: Ainsley Brown The global down turn it could be argued came as a blessing in disguise for the Islamic banking and finance sector (IBF). But may not for reason you might think. The decline in western banking and finance, while it led to many opportunities for the expansion of IBF, actually saw a decline in growth. This decline though