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,...

OT leaders continue to face security challenges

Operational technology (OT) is the cyber physical foundation that enables the world’s factories, energy production and transmission facilities, transportation networks, and utilities to function. By Rick Peters, chief information security officer: operational...

Ransomware and the true cost to business

More than half of all organisations have been the victim of a ransomware attack - and 80% of businesses that chose to pay a ransom demand suffered a second ransomware attack, often at the hands of the same threat actor group. This is according to Cybereason’s global...

Allied Mobile Africa in $55m PIC funding deal

Allied Mobile Africa has signed a strategic finance and partnership agreement with the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) for debt funding facility of $55-million (approximately R800-million). The facility is to drive the company's growth in South Africa as well as...

Company leaders must remap industries

Leaders must understand the critical forces driving digital to the core of products and services and learn how to remap their industries, remodel their organisations and remake themselves to take digital to the core of their leadership, according to Gartner. In the...

Amdahl, ‘father’ of modern computing, dies

Gene Amdahl, credited with many of the technologies used in modern computing, has died, aged 92. Amdahl was IBM's chief architect in the 1960s, overseeing the development of the System/360 mainframe range, which employ technologies that are still central to computing...

Max Planck commits to MeerKAT funding

South Africa's National Research Foundation and the Max Planck Society last week signed a collaboration agreement in respect of the MeerKAT radio telescope, a precursor of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA project is an international enterprise to build the...

China set to dominate flat panel manufacture

While conventional thin film transistor liquid crystal (TFT LCD) displays are rapidly trending towards commoditisation and currently suffering from declining prices and margins, China is quickly adding capacity in all flat-panel display (FPD) manufacturing segments....

Massive decline for East African PC sales

The East Africa PC market - comprising Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia - suffered a year-on-year decline of 24,8% in Q3 2015, with shipments slipping to 108 088 units, according to the latest figures released by global research and consulting firm International...

Companies not sure of protection

More than one-third (36%) of global organisations still lack confidence in their ability to detect sophisticated cyber-attacks, according to the annual EY's Global Information Security Survey 2015, "Creating trust in the digital world". The survey of 1 755...

Pay rises of 6,9% expected in 2016

Companies in the South Africa are forecasting 6,9% pay rises for staff in 2016, according to the latest Salary Trends survey by ECA International. However, once inflation is taken into account "real" salaries will rise by only 1% on average next year. This is lower...

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