In the past, self-service used to be confined to customers fetching their meal from the restaurant’s counter and cleaning up their tables after they have finished. Today, customers do many more tasks that fall in the self-service category
Susan Smithfield
Despite the rise of synthetic fibres, cotton remains a major contributor to the textile market, with a share of about 40 percent. World production of this natural fibre is estimated at 30 million tons per year, with the main producers in 2016 being India and China, ahead of the United States and Pakistan.
The British CCP Research Foundation published on August 11 its latest report “Conduct Costs Project Report 2017”, which estimates the total amounts paid or provisioned by banks because of misconduct or breach of any code of conduct or any central-bank regulation.
Latest survey results and analyses by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) point to a gap in global trade finance of around US$1.6 trillion annually—much of it in developing markets, particularly in Asian developing countries. The concern is that, according to “2017 Rethinking Trade & Finance”, the latest report of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)