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…
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…
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…
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…
BritishAmerican Business was pleased to host Liam Fox, UK Secretary of Trade, this past Friday. Just over 100 members and their guests attended the event in which Dr. Fox said that although the US decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum was aimed at preventing China from selling its steal at cheaper prices, it…
BritishAmerican Business (BAB), the leading membership organisation representing transatlantic businesses, has recognised ten micro, small and mid-size SMEs for growing their business across the Atlantic at the inaugural TransAtlantic Growth (TAG) Awards. The winners of the 2018 TAG Awards are: 30 And Under Silver Achievement Award – Daniel Rees, CEO, Ruroc Woman in Business Silver…
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.…