19/11/2015 BBC Business Live

This is Business Live from the BBC, with Ben Thompson and Sally Bundock.

Cutting off funding for terrorists - as world leaders try to stem

the rise of IS and other armed groups, attention shifts to blocking

Live from London, that's our top story on Thursday 19th November.

With an income of billions of dollars a year, IS is the richest

But how do they make it, and how do global leaders intend to hit back?

A Pacific power struggle - the US and China square up

at the Apec summit in Manila, with territorial disputes

And the European trading day is under way,

In Japan, shares headed higher despite Government data showing that

exports fell in October for the first time in over a year.

And we'll hear from the chief executive of Forbes.

It's known, amongst other things, for its influential rich-list.

But can the magazine stay relevant in a digital world?

Mike Perlis is a veteran of the magazine world -

And as one bank in the Gulf says it will offer customers more interest

on their savings if they do more exercise, we want to

know - are financial rewards an incentive to stay fit and healthy?

Let us know - just use the hashtag #BBCBizLive.

The fight against so-called Islamic State has stepped up

after the attacks in Paris which killed 129 people.

Today the focus is on how the terrorists are funded,

with a commission set up by Russia's President Putin.

It's thought the militant group IS has an annual income of $2-billion.

The US Treasury says it's probably the best-funded terrorist group

Up to $500 million a year comes from the illicit sale of oil.

That's sold to smugglers, who then sell it on through middle men.

The UN says eight million people live in territory controlled

by the group, with taxation and extortion a key source

of revenue, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

The group has also looted up to $1billion from banks

when it took over the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014.

Joining me now is Dr Sally Leivesley,

director of NewRisk - they look at issues of terrorism and security.

As Ben outlined, this is an organisation that is self funding

and from that point of view is doing pretty well? It is a different

situation to other terrorist groups, you cannot easily disrupt with land

and revenues and resources, so their resilience against disruption means

we are in for a very long time with them. Prior to the terrorist attacks

in Paris of last week, this was looked into in great detail because,

of course, there was that issue of how this organisation operates, how

do we try and curb that? What conclusions are drawn about that,

and do we have any more insight, given what happened in Paris? The

stimulus with the G20 nations is that the leaders have to cooperate

because so much of this is banking through the Internet, and also it is

coordination of data collections, and unless the country leaders all

take that on and look at issues of privacy versus trying to really find

these plots on the run, and it is to find inside or our countries who is

being recruited. In a sense, is technology, the online banking,

social media for recruitment, that whole world is the key to this, I

assume, and it is at a time when big companies that provide that are

fighting with governments over privacy? Indeed, and unfortunately

this is a public safety issue because marauding attacks across

cities like Paris mean the finances of cities like Paris will take a

hit, so IS is now becoming a very expensive terrorist group because

they are causing us a cost within our own countries as well. As you

say in some of your analysis, it is about demand, supply, looking at the

basics of how business operates, and how you affect change through that

analysis? What is good is that the countries have got together and

understand that a lot of recruits are crowdfunding through family,

friends, social media, so getting over there is an easy situation but

the state itself needs energy, needs fuel, so what is happening is trying

to disrupt, if you could fuel convoy you may be stopping a fighting

effort that Isis leads, said that immediate impact within the Islamic

State by what countries like ours and Russia are doing, but back home,

while we are looking at what is over there we are missing the point that

we have to upgrade these patterns of buying types of equipment online.

Small bits of funding, people who are quite educated but never in a

job and you need large datasets in the analysis. We appreciate you come

again, very interesting, so much more to talk about. As you say,

governments are talking about this and trying to coordinate more and

more as time goes by. Difficult to know where to start,

though. Let's bring you up-to-date with some

other business stories. Reports say the US drug giant Pfizer

is in talks to buy Irish rival It's a deal that could be worth

$150 billion, making it the biggest It comes despite the US Treasury's

plans to clamp down on so called tax "inversions",

where a big US firm buys a smaller foreign rival then moves

its headquarters to avoid US tax. America's Central Bank,

the Federal Reserve, has given its strongest hint yet that it could

raise interest rates next month. Minutes

of the Fed's October meeting showed "most" officials felt conditions for

a rate hike "could well be met That takes place on the 15th

and 16th of December. Troubled Japanese electronics giant

Sharp is trying to persuade its employees to buy its products

in a bid to boost sales. The firm says it's not mandatory

for staff to buy its goods, but that it wants workers to choose its

products over those from rivals. The company recently announced its

operating profit fell 86% in the The annual

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation - or Apec - summit is wrapping up

in the Philippine capital, Manila. Apec's members include huge

economies like the United States, China, Japan, and South Korea,

as well as the likes of Indonesia, Between them, they account

for almost half of global trade. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield

Hayes is at the summit for us. It has been an interesting time,

because although they want to remain a coherent club all about trade,

making it easy, there are deep divisions particularly between the

US and China? That's right, we have heard lots of

platitudes here about improving cooperation, enhancing inclusive

growth, which has been the slogan of the meeting, but I think what has

been start here is the noticeable deepening differences between China

and the United States on a number of fronts. Firstly on territorial

issues in the South China Sea, President Obama came here much more

assertive in opposing what China has been doing in the South China Sea

over the last year, building on weeks, creating artificial islands,

President Obama said that must stop. He backed it up with new

military aid for the Philippines and Vietnam, including cue new ships he

announced yesterday for the Philippine Navy. That is on one

side. On the trade site, deep differences on trading blocs.

President Obama pushing his big trading group, the TPP, the

Trans-Pacific Partnership, which includes 12 nations including

Japan, Australia and several other Asia-Pacific nations but excluding

China. President Xie Jin Ping of China has come here pushing another

block, you may have heard of TPP but I doubt many people have heard of

FTAP, the free trade area for the Pacific, which China say should be

the new trading bloc for this region. It wants that taken more

seriously and wants to push ahead with plans for its own free trade

area to oppose the Americans' creation of the TPP.

Thank you so much. That Apec summit under way there in Manila.

Some news coming across the wires from Reuters, basically telling us

that Belgium will spend an extra 400 million euros, $427 million, on the

fight against Islamist violence, that coming from the Prime Minister

of Belgium. More funds to fight hate speech in particular, to track

potential extremists, and boost its intelligence services. Interesting

this should be announced, given the conversation we have just had with

Doctor Sally lately, so Belgium, to reiterate, spending an extra 400

million euros specifically geared to fighting Islamist violence, that

story just coming across the wires. Let's just take you to the market

numbers. Stocks rising in Tokyo

after the Bank of Japan decided to keep its stimulus programme

unchanged, pushing up But elsewhere,

that early rebound at the start of the week levelled off yesterday

with further developments in Paris. In Europe, this is how

the numbers are looking. This after last night's news

from the Fed, where America's Central Bank laid out the case for

a potential rise in interest rates That's dominating Wall Street, but

what else is ahead in the US today? Wall Street will be hit with a

double whammy as two high-profile tech companies begin trading.

Square, Twitter CEO's Jack Dorsey's company, is one of the most

prominent unicorns, Private start-ups valued at over $1 billion.

The valuation has been significantly discounted from $6 billion a year

ago. The company has not been profitable and investors worry that

Jack Dorsey will be spread too thin between Square and Twitter to turn

things around. Match group which owns online dating

services will try to woo investors when it debuts on the Nasdaq. The

company plans to use the money raised to repay the debt it owes to

its parent company, IAC. And if we tell, Best Bites and Gap released

their earnings. Joining us is Sue Noffke, UK

equities fund manager at Schroders. It would seem that markets today are

quite happy with what they read in the central bank minutes on

Wednesday? The Fed are doing an important job of communicating to

market what it is that will cause them to start to move interest rates

after nine years. And then what they might look for in terms of the pace

of any further interest rate rises. It is clear that December, all other

things being equal, we will likely see the first rate rise. But the

pace and further moves are likely to be quite modest. It was that move

that boosted Asia? And we are seeing follow-through to Europe. What is

interesting in the detail, they talk about how the US economy has

weathered the storm perhaps better than they expected, talking about

external factors. They were unnerved in the summer and early autumn by

China in particular and what was going on in the emerging markets,

and I think they looked at the statistics, both internationally,

and what it means for the US domestic economy, and the data is

coming through reasonably strongly. I think we need to get away from

these kinds of emergency levels that we have lived with for so long. We

also have UK retail sales coming through later, expecting to see an

increase of something like 5% in sales, which sounds fairly decent.

What does that tell us about how the UK economy is doing? We always have

the comparison, year-on-year, what was the weather doing this time last

year to this year? It always comes back to the weather in UK sales!

There is a big weather in fact, in October and November we also have

the lead up to Christmas and also the important Black Friday,

pre-Christmas sales as well. Some retailers have decided to step away

from Black Friday, so I think we might be in for a surprise. We will

assess whether it is a good or bad move, but we need the right kind of

rain in the meantime! Stepping away from Black Friday, but

I don't think it is gone for ever, I think we are likely to see those

pictures of people scrabbling over TVs.

Also not gone forever, the various rich list, various people compiling

them and a bit obsessed with them. We'll hear from the first man

to head Forbes Media Steve Perlis is also a veteran

of the magazine industry, so we'll ask how do magazines

survive in a digital world? You're with Business Live

from BBC News. into what went wrong at the bank

HBOS will be published later. Our business reporter Simon Jack

is following the story for us. Simon, this is a long-awaited

report, we should get some detail but it is expected to be rather

critical? Yes, there is a big cast of

characters in this disaster movie but let's focus on the three leads,

James Crosby, former chief executive of HBOS, architect of an aggressive

sales driven growth strategy, Andy Hornby, his protege, came from

ASDA, retail background, went from selling mids to mortgages, he was at

Wembley when the bank went down in 2008. Dennis Stevenson, the chairman

of the bank who it could be argued was responsible for keeping his

aggressive executives in check. Possibly also criticism for the

auditor, KPMG, why were they not aware of what was going on, and

regulators at the time, people like John Tyler and Callum McCarthy,

around at the time at the FSA, expect them to get some flak, and

also the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown who brokered the deal for

Lloyds to take over HBOS -- HBOS, much to the chagrin of the

shareholders who say it prompted a hole in their bag. But why do we

care about this, it was seven years ago? 40,000 jobs were lost and it

cost a lot of money for the taxpayers. People will wonder why

only one single prosecutor, Peter Cummings, was fined when the rest

went Scot free. There will be a separate report on why that happened

out today by a QC called Andrew Green.

That report will definitely dominate the UK business news today.

The reason is caught our attention, news from Poundland, the brilliance

team who put it together, if you could hear the debate they had about

the pronunciation! This is Jim McCarty, TCL of

Poundland, he has been talking to the Today programme, about the

impact of the national living wage, and what impact it will have on his

company. Because he cannot put his prices at about ?1. And they are

merging with 99p Stores, so clearly a debate about whether prices will

go up or down! After attacks in Paris

killed 129 people on Friday, global leaders are now looking

at what they can do to limit the power

of the so-called Islamic State. the group's multibillion-dollar

funding stream. Russia has announced a commission

to combat terrorism financing, while the European Union

is now looking at what it can do to restrict the supply of

money to IS. Details of that as we get it, and

plenty more on the website, of course.

The magazine business has had a tough time of late.

The internet has been responsible for the demise

And denting the advertising revenues of others.

But there has been one notable exception, Forbes magazine.

The business magazine ended last year

with a record US readership of 6.7 million.

US visitors to Forbes.com have also risen significantly,

That success has spawned many admirers.

In 2014 Forbes Media, which controls the magazine, sold

a majority stake worth $300 million to a Hong Kong based investor group.

One of the key drivers of that success has been Mike Perlis,

back in 2010 he became the first chief executive of Forbes Media

to not be a member of the Forbes family.

Michelle Fleury asked him what he was doing differently.

I invested principally in digital content businesses, Huffington Post,

Buzzfeed, associated content, Buddy Media, and I learned a lot

about how to create content, how to figure out the right kinds

of business models around the creation of high quality content.

And I reached a certain age, and as a guy who's been an operator most of

my life, I decided, after ten years of venture capital investing, that

I wanted to take what I've learned and apply it to a grand old brand,

and I found Forbes, I've known Forbes,

they are very forward thinking, very nimble, and able to move,

and we put the old brand together with new digital thinking

and really transformed the company over the last five years,

which is what I left Softbank to go out and try and do.

You talk about the bigger opportunity being digital,

I mean, most of your advertising revenue now comes

from digital ads, not traditional ads.

It does, we crossed over that threshold

I think we are unique in old, well-established brands,

having found ourselves, worked very hard to get there,

but finding ourselves in the position

where most of our advertising from advertising comes from digital.

Which brings me to a concern that some people have about native

advertising, they are worried that somehow that wall between content

and advertising has been broken - how do you address those concerns?

Our native advertising product is something called Brand Voice.

We have over 100 marketers who take advantage of that.

they work with the business side of the house.

But the content that they create, it's not salesy,

it's not advertorial, it's thought leadership

that represents their company in the way

that they'd like consumer to see them, and as a result

is of great interest to our audience and drives traffic to Forbes.com

along with the content we do create, you know, in the old-fashioned way,

You also have to work with Hong Kong investment group that owns a portion

of Forbes, what has that been like? It's been...

It's new, it's just a year, we sold a majority stake in Forbes

Media to Integrated Whale Media, ut's a group of Hong Kong invesors

There are great opportunities for Forbes in Asia, and one of the

reasons that our new investors came on board, in addition to wanting to

continue to run the media company in an innovative way and ambitiously

and continue to grow it, they also see, and I agree,

that there are amazing opportunities from a branding standpoint

Products that are based on the image and the character and ethos

that is created by our media product, but that may be in the

travel area, the financial services area, the real estate area.

So when you mention travel there, is there an example you can give me

of what a Forbes branded travel experience might look like?

Well, we have a travel guide, Forbes Travel Guide, that rates hotels, a

five-star rating system, but I think beyond that we are looking at things

along the lines of investments in real hotel and conference properties

that may have the Forbes name, probably like everything we do,

with a strong dollop of business as an overlay.

Forbes branded business travel products.

So the Michelin Guide but for business travellers.

A bit more breaking news related to the events in Paris on Friday, news

on the AP newswire that authorities in Belgium have launched six raids

in Brussels. They say this is in the Brussels region, all linked to the

suicide bomber Bilal Hadfi. They say an bushel in the federal

prosecutor's offers say that is taking place in the Molenbeek area

of Brussels but other areas are included. Six more raids taking

place in Brussels. 24-hour is ago, the raids were ongoing in

Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, which was taking place this time

yesterday. Bilal Hadfi has been identified as one of three attackers

at the Stade de France stadium. The raids are centring on his

the AP newswire. We will update you the AP newswire. We will update you

when we get more information. We just want to take you through some

of the business pages, welcome back. We are hearing from Forbes, Mike

Perlis, this is the rich list, the hot 40 under 40, making us all feel

a little like failures in our careers! But nonetheless, the top

ten are worth $122 billion between them. A lot of money, and a lot of

very new companies, eight Facebook associates, three from air B, so

all the new companies that have really risen up so quickly, and what

is happening is that age is not a barrier to very real success,

certainly in monetary terms. It is happening for people a lot quicker

in the digital age than it did some generations ago. Just one on the

list is a woman, Elizabeth Holmes, who started a biotech company. Yes,

diagnostics. , worth $4 billion. Quite interesting, but it would be

nice to see more women on that list. One out of 40 is quite disappointing

as a hit rate, it should be something that is more

representative of our place in society. Indeed. Maybe it's big to

the entrepreneurial spirit, I'm not quite sure. -- maybe it speaks.

Speaking of diagnostics, big business in the United States,

health devices, this is a whole new take.

You get a higher interest rate on your savings account if you take

exercise. That is one way of getting people to do exercise. Depending on

the number of steps you are prepared to take, they will monitor your

activity rate and adjust the interest rate accordingly. I think

Big Brother is going to be watching us all, we will get something for

being more active in our lives. Thanks so much for coming in,

counting every step! Thank you for your company, we will

see you soon. Bye-bye.