This post is also available in: JapaneseI was surprised to receive a letter from my bank, NatWest, a couple of months ago, offering me £4,000 to switch my business account to another bank. It turned out that this was not a scam, but a consequence of the bank having been rescued by UK government funds…

This post is also available in: JapaneseI was asked to speak at a Portugal-Japan Investment event at the end of 2019. Initially I was worried about what I could say as I was not sure there would be much that would interest Japanese companies in Portugal. The population is only around 10 million and multinationals…

This post is also available in: JapaneseI have been visiting Ireland about once a year recently for business, but also for family reasons. The business side is to provide training for companies there that have been acquired by a Japanese company, or in one case, had acquired a company in Japan via its US parent….

This post is also available in: JapanesePernille Rudlin, Managing Director of Rudlin Consulting and David Henig, Director, UK Trade Policy Project at European Centre for International Political Economy participated in a Japan Society webinar on February 4th 2021, talking and answering questions about the Brexit agreement one month on, the impact on Japanese companies in…

This post is also available in: JapanesePernille Rudlin, managing director of Rudlin Consulting will be speaking at a Japan Society webinar on the Brexit agreement one month on, on Thursday 4th February, 12 noon to 1pm GMT. Further details and free registration here. As 1 January 2021 saw the end of the withdrawal transition period…

This post is also available in: JapaneseWe covered in a previous post how Japan originated companies continued to increase their presence in Europe – apart from in the UK and Switzerland – over the past 5 years.  We used the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs annual data, which showed an 11% decline from 1,064 Japan…