‘Artificial intelligence’ (AI) and ‘machine learning’ are sneaking into every part of our daily lives.

How do we tell the realizable use cases available now from what’s projected?

In 1850, Michael Faraday released his seminal paper on electromagnetic induction. However, some 100 years after Faraday’s paper, that electricity become widely adopted, standardized, and ultimately reached a level, which meant it was superior to other technologies, such as steam.

ACA Compliance Group (“ACA”) announced yesterday that, following the receipt of regulatory approvals, it has completed the acquisition of Cordium, a leading provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) products and services. As of today, ACA employs nearly 700 people and provides products and services to over 4,000 clients worldwide. The financial terms of the transaction will not be disclosed.

Adyen is the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, providing a modern end-to-end infrastructure that connects directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods. Adyen delivers frictionless payments across in-store, mobile and ecommerce channels. Its key customers include L’Oreal, Superdry, Facebook, Uber, Netflix, Spotify, Tory Burch, Casper and Bonobos.

A survey compiled by BSI‘s Cybersecurity and Information Resilience centre of excellence in conjunction with GovNewsDirect has unearthed a range of inconsistencies in how prepared the UK’s public sector organizations are for potential cyber-attacks and data losses.

Actual security breaches

The PRA110, introduced to build upon existing liquidity returns including LCR and NSFR & C66.00, and to replace the existing FSA 47/48, requires the acquisition of additional data of greater granularity to facilitate the monitoring and measurement of daily cashflow mismatches.

There are clear and universal businesses cases for the adoption of IoT across multiple industries in Europe and North America. The business case for Africa however, is not so simple. A continent comprised of many countries with vastly different economic, political and social environments, Africa requires a unique approach to the development of IoT penetration.

The IoT Africa Summit, a division of the premier IT Leaders Summit which annually hosts more than 170 CIO’s from Africa’s top businesses will be gearing up to define the path for the African connectivity renaissance.

The United Bank of Egypt (The United Bank) has modernized its core banking infrastructure across its retail, corporate and treasury business using Finastra technology. The bank has upgraded to the latest version of Fusion Equation, integrating it with a new deployment of Fusion Teller to drive efficient in-branch retail operations.

Perkbox, Europe’s fastest growing employee engagement platform today announces a strategic expansion of its technology capability. As the company is set to scale both in the UK and internationally and launch a range of new products, it has appointed Paul Schulz, ex-Head of Mobile Technology at Yahoo! as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and doubled the size of its tech team.