Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Market & Economic Risk Canadian newsprint mill Corner Brook is expanding its export market beyond the U.S. due to high fees. In January, a 10% export duty was placed on the mill. In Mexico, several media outlets have reported that scams and cyber-attacks increased at least 47% during 2017 affecting the country’s e-commerce industry. Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has announced that the National Tax Policy (NTP) committee had drafted five amendment bills and two Executive Orders that will be sent to the Federal Executive Council in the near term. Operational & Physical Risk On May 11 in the Philippines, judges voted 8-6 against Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and removed her from the post following differences with President Rodrigo Duterte over the ongoing “war on drugs.” In India, opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 has intensified in Assam state’s Brahmaputra Valley. The Assamese-majority region’s marked difference of opinion in the matter with Bengali-dom