Gloomy outlook for global economies as geopolitical tensions worsen

Coface’s latest risk review, Rates Against the Machine, has confirmed what the world dreaded just a few months ago has come to pass – rather than improve, the geopolitical situation has deteriorated once again. This, Coface says, puts upward pressure on commodity...

Banks are still missing the links between fraud and money laundering

Financial institutions are increasingly integrating their fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) systems, but intelligence and governance gaps remain. New fraud and AML convergence research from Datos Insights, commissioned by data and AI leader SAS, finds 86% report...

How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

Africa becoming top target for cybercriminals

Mark Davison reports from Kaspersky's Cyber Security Weekend in Kuala Lumpur - The META (Middle East, Turkey and Africa) region is under sustained threat from cybercriminals and Africa, in particular, has become their number one target. This is the word from Dr Amin...

Africa dominates list of the fastest-growing economies

Africa will account for 11 of the world's 20 fastest-growing economies in 2024, the African Development Bank Group said in its latest Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook (MEO) of the continent released on Friday. Overall, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for...

Global IT spend set for 2021 recovery, growing to $4trn

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4,1-trillion in 2021, an increase of 8,4% from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The source of funds for new digital business initiatives will more frequently come from business departments outside IT and...

Energy efficiency vital for vaccine rollout

As South Africa is preparing for a broad roll-out of the country's vaccine programme, energy efficiency is one of the factors to consider, according to the South African National Energy Development Institute, (SANEDI). Energy is crucial to operate cold chains that...

AI, automation touted as the solution for SA

South Africa's only option for addressing poverty and poor economic growth is to embrace 4IR technologies such as automation and artificial iIntelligence (AI), to make the country more competitive. This is according to Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, vice-chancellor and...

Working from home hasn’t made the office redundant

After more than a year in which millions of office workers around the globe were forced to work from home for months and did so (mostly) successfully, businesses are faced with the question of whether 2021 heralds the end of the physical office. Downscaling or even...

SA shows a strong appetite for remote work

One of the major legacies of the pandemic is an expectation by workers that they will be allowed to work remotely more often. This is according to a new study Decoding Global Ways of Working by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and The Network, including local partner...

African private sector recovery lags global trend

Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) reports released by IHS Markit in the first week of April shows that, while African private sector activity continued to improve during the first quarter of 2021, growth lagged global trends. PwC's calculations show that PMIs for eight...

Report highlights dangers of a single password

The number of annual credential spills has nearly doubled in the last four years, according to the latest Credential Stuffing Report. The report also estimated that the average spill size in 2020 was 17-million records. Those millions of credentials, including emails,...

Malicious WhatsApp autoreplies spread malware

Check Point Research (CPR) has discovered a new and innovative malicious threat on the Google Play app store which spreads itself via mobile users' WhatsApp conversations, and can also send further malicious content via automated replies to incoming WhatsApp messages....

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