Millennials: with smart devices in hand, they live online like no generation that has come before. But that does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that they are either gullible or trusting when it comes to managing their finances in the virtual sphere. Rather, millennials display significant concerns about security when banking, purchasing and moving money online..

Most business leaders would like to run an environmentally sustainable company, one that does little harm to the natural world and that leaves its employees and customers healthier. Few companies have been able to put that ideal into practice because they haven’t had the data. But now they do..

Airport Technology interviews Justin Lowe, digital trust and cyber security expert at PA Consulting, following the release of PA’s recently published report on the cybersecurity of airports, titled ‘Overcome the Silent Threat’..

Ready, set, explore! Everyone knows that the startup world now extends far beyond traditional bastions of tech like San Francisco and New York. But media attempts to summarise the new tech territory can be dizzying: the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2018 included deep dives into 43 different ecosystems, covering everywhere from Seattle to Shanghai..

KPMG has published their Pulse of Fintech report highlighting global Fintech activity for the first half of 2018. According to KPMG, global investment in Fintech is going gangbusters as “Fintech market activity worldwide gained momentum during the first half of the year as the geographic diversity and reach of Fintech investment continued to expand.”.

Accenture’s recent intelligent operations research highlights an important trend: the growing acknowledgement that artificial intelligence will have a major impact on companies’ business. Nearly 90 percent of executives in our research believe the application of automation, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) will be critical to business and process transformation. Furthermore, just over 60 percent said the application of automation and AI to business processes will be important to achieving their business goals.

It’s time for a better paradigm of urbanisation. Conventional models, while still solid, are no longer up to the heightened challenges of the present. Exponentially improving technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence are enabling urban developments with much higher levels of efficiency and flexibility to conserve resources, promote security, and boost the quality of life..

How government CIOs can exploit conversational AI to deliver more personalised, digital services to their citizens.

In our 2018 study The Automation Advantage, we surveyed 415 global IT executives using cloud automation at varying stages of maturity. The results presented a clear divide: “Fast Movers” (the 20% most advanced in applying automation) and “Followers".

A recent Frost & Sullivan research shows that the major challenge currently facing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution market is the inability of providers to offer one-stop- shop solutions..

Despite 95 percent of CIOs expecting cyberthreats to increase over the next three years, only 65 percent of their organisations currently have a cybersecurity expert, according to a survey from Gartner. The survey also reveals that skills challenges continue to plague organisations that undergo digitalisation, with digital security staffing shortages considered a top inhibitor to innovation..

If the NHS gets its technology right, the pay-off will be huge financially and in terms of patient health.

Across the world, BP teams and partner organisations are working on ways to lower carbon, by reducing emissions from operations, improving their products and creating low carbon businesses. These activities come from all parts of the organisation....

Marks & Spencer has launched a new data academy to train staff from every part of its business in data science.In a bid to ensure it is “fit for the digital age”, M&S enlisted Decoded to teach more than 1000 employees in the first 18 months..

IoT devices are all around us, and will communicate 400 zettabytes of data (that’s 4GB with 22 zeros after) by the end of 2018, but an AI component is needed to make sense of all this data - otherwise we end up with nothing more than a mountain of ones and zeros..

If the consulting industry has been really good at one thing, then it’s at taking perfectly decent words and loading them up with so much promise and ambition that they crack under the strain. “Transformation” is teetering dangerously close to the edge of this at the moment: Digital technology offers so much in terms of potential impact on organisations’ top and bottom lines, but clients are increasingly demanding proof, evidence that work is, in fact, being transformed, writes Fiona Czerniawska of Source Global Research.

Consider how cloud options have changed the way we think of data centers in just a few years..

Digital Realty continues to expand its connectivity to cloud computing platforms. Today the company said that it is boosting customer access to the IBM Cloud in 15 markets around the world. The expansion follows a similar move earlier this year to improve connectivity to the Oracle cloud..

The Law Commission recently published a consultation paper on anti-money laundering and the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) regime..

UK quoted companies issued 58 profit warnings in the second quarter of 2018 – almost a third more than the same quarter last year..

Top accounting firm EY has acquired technology assets and related patents of the Crypto-Asset Accounting and Tax (CAAT), a technology developed by Elevated Consciousness..

The number of cyber incidents saw a 32% jump in the first quarter of 2018 compared to the same period in 2017, according to a new report from Positive Technologies. According to the report, hackers are motivated by data theft, and malware attacks have spiked 75% since Q1 2017..

We have deepened and broadened our analysis of EVs’ disruptive potential and the implications..

The strength of the third-party channel and the value that brokers provide to consumers is overpowering mainstream media scrutiny, according to a new report..

Apps, device management and the user experience will all be affected. But the biggest developments could be in the security area..

The key to IBM`s robust blockchain business stems from three guarantees the sprawling technology company can make to its clients, Senior Vice President of IBM Global Markets Martin Schroeter said Wednesday..

Across the world, organizations have been using smart machines powered by artificial intelligence to drive operational efficiencies. But focusing on efficiencies alone misses the truly transformational opportunity: to create self-adapting and self-optimizing “intelligent” processes and operations that use machine learning algorithms and real-time data to continuously improve. In our view, this reimagining of processes represents a great leap forward that will unlock entirely new roles and new ways for humans and machines to work together.

Program spotlights innovative approaches, technologies and behaviors transforming business today...

Why companies are struggling with their digital transformations.

Dutch management and technology consultancy firm BearingPoint has opened its fourth office in Romania, in Iasi, as part of its strategic development plan.The firm chose Iasi for its fourth centre due to its well-known technical university and the availability of trained IT personnel..

As the drumbeat for digitisation grows louder, industrial manufacturers must develop new strategies for Internet of Things technology investment..

Hitachi and Google Cloud have joined forces through a strategic alliance to advance digital solutions powered by IoT.

Deloitte in Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and Southeast Asia are coming together to create Deloitte Asia Pacific, forming a consultancy powerhouse across the region. According to the advisory firm, the move will allow for greater investment and focus on Deloitte`s customers across the region..

IT major Infosys has flagged off concerns around increased rejection of work visa applications, and said this could result in delays and increase in project costs for its clients.The company has already been ramping local hiring in key markets like the US to tackle increasing scrutiny around work visas by various governments..

• Big Four firms have the most Brexit experts—but are unlikely to meet the demand
• Without consultants, UK companies will struggle to adapt to post-Brexit world...

Technology giant IBM has launched a new research center through a partnership with Columbia University in a move aimed to boost blockchain application development and education initiatives..

Deloitte has announced plans to collaborate with Google Cloud and SAP to help customers devise a comprehensive cloud strategy, migrate their SAP applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and manage their entire cloud environment..

PMG Australia is already facing internal pressure to convert the software startup it co-founded with CBA and Microsoft into a globally repeatable model. That pressure continues as the startup, called Wiise, was held up as an example of the kinds of new partnerships that Microsoft wants to strike, at its annual Inspire partner conference in Las Vegas this week..

Consumers are increasingly aware and satisfied by AI-enabled experiences, but expect the human presence..

Chairman and CEO Pierre Nanterme tells Forbes how his global consulting firm discovered that being a “fast follower” suddenly became fatally slow in the age of A.I. and cloud..

The global strategy and marketing consultancy increases its presence in China with a third location to join Beijing and Hong Kong.

Say what you want about Brexit, but over the last couple of years our economy has been recovering and we’ve seen a relatively buoyant UK jobs market, with unemployment levels at a record low. Today’s candidates have a wealth of options to choose from, with employers having to work harder and be more innovative in how they attract and retain high-calibre talent.

The financial cost of illicit trade is high, with the toy industry taking a £400 million hit, for example. And society is suffering too, with the independent retail sector recruiting 12,000 fewer people. And the problem is growing..

KPMG Enterprise’s Global Network for Innovative Startups launched the Q2’18 edition of the Venture Pulse Report. The report analyses the latest global trends in venture capital investment data and provides insights from both a global and regional perspective..

Open banking is big news in the financial industry and is gaining some serious traction – particularly in Europe, where new regulations have come into force this year..

Second-quarter combined ACV grows 23 percent year-on-year to €3.7 billion
Traditional sourcing ACV reaches €2.5 billion, reversing a downward trend
As-a-Service growth accelerates, up 50 percent to €1.2 billion...

Artificial Intelligence will create new jobs but firms worry about filling these vacancies...

Blockchain-based technology has the enormous power to scale rapidly while keeping us protected. It rewards trust and tracks accountability. In a digital world that has become so distributed, blockchain could revolutionise business practices as we know them..

That`s right, I said it: the UK tech sector needs more chocolate fountains. I`m not talking about supplying tech events up and down the nation with indulgent desserts, I`m referring to a delicious metaphorical one..

There’s no getting away from it, artificial intelligence is already everywhere. From the lofty (DeepMind applying AI to improve the NHS), to the mundane (“Alexa, put Love Island on”) it’s got a role to play in every area of our lives..