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KPMG And Microsoft Announce New “Blockchain Nodes”
February 16th, 2017
First joint blockchain nodes open in Frankfurt and Singapore; will identify new applications and use cases for blockchain technology KPMG International and Microsoft Corp. have announced the launch of joint Blockchain Nodes, which are designed to create and demonstrate ...
Hong Kong police struggle to stop brokerage hacking spree
February 16th, 2017
Hong Kong police are struggling to deal with digital pump-and-dump schemes targeting brokerages – a little-known type of computer-generated fraud that surged in the Chinese territory last year. Although the money involved was small – only about $20 million ...
EU Commission to take legal action against U.S. plans for border tax
February 15th, 2017
The European Commission says it is prepared to take legal action against US plans to impose a border tax. “If somebody is behaving against our interests or against international rules in trade then we have our own mechanisms to ...
FMA updates Strategic Risk Outlook and sets course for new era in conduct regulation
February 15th, 2017
Today the Financial Markets Authority published its updated Strategic Risk Outlook (SRO). This is a foundation FMA document and sets out how the regulator identifies and prioritises the key risks to its overall objective of fair, efficient and transparent ...
All EU Member States’ economies set to grow in 2016, 2017 and 2018, EC forecast
February 15th, 2017
For the first time in almost a decade, the economies of all EU Member States are expected to grow for three consecutive years (2016-2018) according to the European Commission’s Winter Forecast published today. The UK economy is forecast to ...
Alert: New wave of cyberattacks against global banks
February 13th, 2017
New wave of cyberattacks against global banks linked to Lazarus cybercrime group Dozens of banks, particularly in the United States and Poland, have been targeted by newly identified malware. An aggressive campaign of malware attacks against dozens of banks ...
The outlook of employee salaries in Gulf region for 2017
February 13th, 2017
Many companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region are not planning to change their compensation budgets for 2017, with employee salaries expected to continue at a relatively flat rate compared to a year ago. Recent data released by ...
Dutch Bank and FinTech firm develop Robo-Accountant
February 13th, 2017
ABN Amro has teamed up with InvoiceSharing to launch a new solution for SMEs. The system is based around giving users 25/7 insight into their accounts and allowing them to assess their capital needs in advance. SMEs with an ...
University of Luxembourg: Researchers develop Zcash cryptocurrency
February 13th, 2017
Scientists at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg have developed an important mathematical algorithm called “Equihash”. Equihash is a core component for the new cryptocurrency Zcash, which offers more privacy and ...
Here Come The Robots – And They Are Going To Take Almost All Of Our Jobs
February 9th, 2017
What is going to happen to society when robots are able to do just about everything better, faster and cheaper than human workers can? We live at a time when technology is increasing at an exponential pace. Incredible advancements ...
