The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has called on organisations in the UK finance sector to air their views on the benefits and potential threats that big tech firms bring to the sector. The rapid digitisation of the financial services sector has seen tech giants such as Apple and Google develop and offer financial services […]

Of businesses that are prepared to accept some degree of fraud during the customer onboarding process, those that were set up within the last 20 years or so will accept a higher rate of fraud than their more established peers, according to a report compiled for Onfido, a provider of automated identity verification and […]

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 25 October 2022 The Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2022 Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we reveal our annual list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology. We talk to the No.1 on the list, Flavilla Fongang, […]

What is peak-to-peak (pk-pk)? Peak-to-peak (pk-pk) is the difference between the highest and the lowest values in a waveform. In alternating current (AC) the peak-to-peak value is twice the peak value or 2.828 times the root-mean-square (RMS) value. Peak-to-peak voltage is indicated by VPP. The difference between peak-to-peak, peak, amplitude and RMS In alternating current […]

Experiencing a cyber attack can be so discombobulating for ordinary employees that over half of office workers say they would reconsider working for a company that had recently fallen victim to an incident, with only a third saying they would be unphased. This is according to a study of office workers, C-suite executives and […]

It is organisational complacency, rather than the specific actions of cyber criminals and other threat actors, that poses the greatest source of risk to British businesses, information commissioner John Edwards has warned. Speaking as the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined construction firm Interserve £4.4m over a 2020 ransomware incident that saw the data of […]

Sanchit Juneja presented at the Digital Transformation Week conference in Amsterdam in September, explaining how data and machine learning ecosystems change as organisations scale. Juneja is director-product of the data science and machine learning platform at Booking.com and is based in Amsterdam.  He presented an ideal data ecosystem for a large tech company and […]

Berlingske Media has become the first Nordic publishing group to confirm plans to phase out the printed edition of a national daily newspaper. It is preparing to end the production of Berlingske Tidende and transition to a fully digital “newspaper” in 2023. The decision was shaped by societal changes in Denmark regarding how the […]

Interviews conducted by Forrester suggest that artificial intelligence (AI) has not yet helped transform finance, yet it is advancing rapidly in some areas. Procure-to-pay (P2P), for example, uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) and has shown immediate returns, while order-to-cash and audit analytics show near-term benefits from AI. Furthermore, predictive analytics […]

HSBC has chosen Oracle’s [email protected] service to upgrade and migrate some of its database systems. The bank will use Oracle’s managed infrastructure service in its own datacentres. The service is part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The two organisations said the platform will enable HSBC to continue its existing use of the supplier’s databases to […]