BABC Trade & Investment Update – April 2018

British-American Business Council Trade & Investment Update – April 2018 On Friday, 27 April, BABC released the April edition of its monthly Trade and Investment Update newsletter, sent to its membership across 22 chapters spanning the US & UK. This month’s edition featured information on GDPR, including what BABC itself is doing to ensure it…

Invest Northern Ireland: Tech culture propels FDI growth in Northern Ireland

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…

CEO Duncan Edwards Helps Lead Panel at City Week 2018

Duncan Edwards, CEO of BritishAmerican Business, was one of four guest panelists participating in a discussion around the current landscape of transatlantic trade and investment between the United States and United Kingdom, one of many panels taking place at the City Week 2018 Conference: “Securing Continuity Against a Backdrop of Global Change.” Speaking to the…

Brexit update

On 4th April, the UK parliamentary ‘Exiting the EU Committee’ (for clarity, not a UK government body) published a report based on its inquiry into the Article 50 negotiations through which the UK will leave the EU.  The report has 181 paragraphs of detail which you can read here if you would like to.  But…