New and improved car emissions tests become mandatory on 1st September
The initiative will help trim down public health and environmental risks...
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Trust fund for Central African Republic a “positive achievement”, say EU Auditors
The Bêkou EU trust fund has attracted aid, delivering the expected outputs, with few additional donors coming forward...
Sky9 Capital has added new members to its Advisory Board
Chay, Teh, Xu, and Zeng to join the board...
China Minsheng Bank partners with Bolero to slash transaction times for importers
Bank will offer the multiple benefits of the Bolero platform as new agreement marks the start of long-term relationship...
BTL gets crypto-currency expert on advisory board
To help blockchain solutions company accelerate commercialisation of its Interbit platform March 15, 2017: BTL GROUP LTD. (TSX Venture: BTL) has announced that Jon Downing has joined its advisory board. BTL, which operates from both Canada and the UK, offers blockchain solutions to businesses. Over the last 25 years, Jon has successfully delivered innovation, business...
Africa’s youth bulge
Many analysts expect significant growth opportunities in the continent, which has the largest youth population in the world Benita James December 21, 2016: Africa’s demography is showing a visible shift and many analysts have reason to believe that the continent has the largest youth population in the world. A young population is generally considered as...
Banks need not fear startups
How data science can save traditional banking and insurance from GAFA Florian Douetteau December 12, 2016: In 2016, there are very few industries that big tech players (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon – or GAFA) don’t have their hands in. The finance industry is no exception; after having recovered from the global economic crisis of...
Singapore’s economy to stay sluggish in 2017
Growth in 2017 expected to be only slightly higher than this year, just above 2% IFM Correspondent October 31, 2016: Singapore’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), said that the country’s small, trade-dependent economy is going through a cyclical downturn that has lasted longer than expected and is not expected to pick up...
Defending the UK’s financial trading sector
The government’s intent ‘is for the UK to remain the top choice for European and global bank headquarters’ Nigel Davies October 17, 2016: Over the past decade, the nature of the threats to society has evolved beyond the physical world in which they traditionally operated. State-sponsored cybercrime and organised criminal hacking has become a threat...
Five security predictions for 2016
The challenge with making security predictions is that we can only talk about bad news because that’s the only news that makes it into the public sphere Jon McLachan January 18, 2016: Hacks. Breaches. Theft of intellectual property. Man-in-the-middle attacks. Rogue cybercriminals and orchestrated efforts by foreign actors. Celebrities with weak passwords. Wholesale downloads of...