BJSS wins coveted Queen’s Award for Enterprise
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.
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…
Read UK Sec of State for Trade Liam Fox’s speech on the future of trade
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…
BritishAmerican Business partners with Smart Cities for their #SCNY18 program
The future of cities is now; and the people powering that future live and work in cities, bringing their energy and ideas to bear on the unique challenges and opportunities of urban life. This year, we are proud to announce a partnership with Smart Cities New York (May 8-10,NY), where a diverse global community of…
Read the Executive Director of BAB London, Emanuel Adam’s, commentary on the American Hour
Read a commentary on opportunities and challenges that may impact the US’ trade policy when the UK formally departs from the EU, by Emanuel Adam, Executive Director, BAB London and BAB Director of Policy & Trade
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…
Notes from the CEO
I am happy to be sending you what is the first in a regular series of short quarterly updates on the work of BritishAmerican Business which I hope you will find helpful. Policy work Our fundamental purpose as a non-aligned, transatlantic trade association is to support policies and actions that are designed to…
[CORE THOUGHTS] DDC OS USA – Are you ready for GDPR compliance?
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…
BAB attends first meeting of US-UK SME Dialogue
BritishAmerican Business Director of Policy and Trade, Emanuel Adam, last week attended a meeting of the newly established US-UK SME Dialogue, held in Washington D.C. Taking place around the 3rd US-UK Trade and Investment Working Group Meeting, Adam said the meeting was convened to explore the future US-UK trade and investment relationship post-Brexit and to…