Buffalo, New York USA News

Good news for Western New York companies with international operations: trade growth is expected to accelerate in 2014, not 2015 as previously anticipated, as the global economy picks up speed.

That’s according to the latest quarterly HSBC Global Connections Trade Forecast. The report also finds:

• The annual growth rate of U.S. exports to China are forecasted to outpace U.S. imports from China during the next five years.

The person over there, the who sits right near you at your office, is the one you’d least suspect to be stealing from the company. But maybe that’s the one who should be watched more carefully than anyone else.

Michael McCartney, who owns computer forensics company DIGITS LLC, works cases involving embezzlement or stealing trade secrets. And when the evidence trail leads to an employee who was copying the information from a company computer, business owners often tell him that the culprit, “was the last person I suspected...

North Forest Office Space, of Williamsville, is expanding into central Texas.

The development company has started work on its first Texas project, in the City of Pflugerville, northeast of Austin.

The project calls for 34,000 square feet of professional, medical and dental space. Construction on phase one of four phases is underway. It should be ready for occupancy by early summer.

M&T Bank has expanded its mobile banking capabilities for business customers.

The Buffalo bank (NYSE: MTB) has introduced a new Mobile Banking for Business service that allows business clients to pay bills, transfer funds and view account balances and histories at any time using mobile phones. The service is available to all M&T business clients enrolled in Web Banking for Business.