Top IT professionals are attracted to companies that can offer a strong culture of innovation and not simply a competitive remuneration package, according to a new report1 from Robert Half Technology. 

A new way for businesses to assess their own cyber defence preparedness, understand where any gaps in defence capability may exist and what mitigations can be applied has been launched in the UK. APMG-International, an independent Certification Body, is working with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and its commercialisation company Ploughshare Innovations Ltd, to deliver the new 

The SWIFT Institute announces the availability of a new paper that investigates Bitcoin mining pools and considers whether an evolution towards smaller mining pools might stabilise the Bitcoin system. The report, entitled "Bitcoin – the Miner’s Dilemma" by Ittay Eyal from Cornell University, focuses on inherent dangers of mining pools, an essential part of the bitcoin ecosystem.

Effective today, the software division of Regenersis, a global provider of device diagnostics, repair and data erasure services, announces it has a new name – Blancco Technology Group (www.blanccotechnologygroup.com). This rebrand signals a deliberate move to recast the company into a new role – acting as a guardian of electronic assets and mobile functionality for enterprise businesses.

I find Managing by Walking Around to have been the most valuable management technique of my long career. Let me explain my perspective on this process. Deming explained that you can only improve a process or a system by having a deep knowledge of it. By looking at systems from an engineering, systems analysis, operations research, sociological, political, socioeconomic, financial, philosophical, artistic, poetic, scientific, geopolitical, humanitarian, cost-benefit, automation point of view, one gains a perspective on their continuous improvement.

IDT Corporation (IDT) announced today that its flagship Boss Revolution international money transfer service has launched a direct-to-mobile-wallet service to Kenya and Niger.

The art of Rodin, Rembrandt and so many other artists demonstrates that the greatest art is a play of light and darkness. A Rembrandt is also a pitcher in baseball who “paints” the corner of the base with his perfect delivery of the ball. There is no such thing as darkness, just the absence of light. Light is the means by which man peers into the darkness. Faust sold his soul for a chance to peer into the darkness. So did Adam and Eve sell theirs.

Keefe Bruyette & Woods (KBW), a Stifel company (NYSE:SF), and Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) today announced the launch of the KBW Nasdaq Global Bank Index (Ticker: GBKX), the first and only index designed to track the performance of those banks designated as global systemically important (G-SIBs) by the Financial Stability Board and Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The 28 banks included in the KBW Nasdaq Global Bank Index represent 45% of the global investable banking universe and account for approximately $3T in total market cap.

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announced today it has been appointed by the Hong Kong Treasury Markets Association (TMA) as the calculating agent for the TMA RMB Bond Indicative Quotes. The indicative quotes aim at increasing the price transparency for RMB-denominated institutional bonds issued in Hong Kong by the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China.  The publication of the indicative quotes will be conducive to strengthening Hong Kong’s position as a leading offshore RMB center.