This is a "watershed year" for cybercrime, according to a new survey on the topic. Yet many companies are falling short in their efforts to battle it.

Dana Martin, product manager of Elementum, offers an overview of risk management, and how far companies have come in integrating the discipline with their global supply chains.

Retail sales in the U.S. climbed for a second straight month, a sign consumers may be looking past recent volatility in financial markets.

The Swedish government has proposed a tonnage tax system that means Swedish shipping companies will operate under competitive conditions similar to companies in other countries in Europe. The tonnage tax would be introduced in summer 2016.

The value of exports from America's foreign-trade zones (FTZs) increased by 24.8 percent in 2014, to a record $99.2bn in merchandise exported, according to figures released by the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board in its recent Annual Report to Congress. The 2014 export figure also represents a threefold growth of FTZ exports in the five years since 2009.

Companies say they have effective supplier compliance programs in place. But reality says something quite different.

Jacobs Douwe Egberts, in the process of developing a global corporate compliance strategy, has adopted the Amber Road trade management solution to enable restricted-party screening.