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• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Latest Innovate Finance report reveals decrease in UK fintech investment, but like-for-like increase

  Innovate Finance’s latest figures on fintech investment show reduction in UK, but report methodology leaves this open to change

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Former subpostmaster Alan Bates, who ‘pulled up trees and moved mountains’, turns down OBE offer

  Alan Bates, who fought for decades to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, says it would be inappropriate to accept an OBE when former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells still holds her CBE

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  Executive interview: Rajesh Naidu, Expedia

  We speak to Expedia’s head of IT architecture about what a modern, scalable architecture for the cloud should look like

• January 04, 2023 04 Jan'23

  Traditional banking under threat from platform-based alternatives

  Banking as a service embedded in non-banking business offerings will take large chunks from traditional banks

• January 04, 2023 04 Jan'23

  Diversity and inclusion figures high in New Year Honours List 2023

  The New Year Honours List 2023 hailed those in the technology community who promote diversity and inclusion

• January 03, 2023 03 Jan'23

  CDO interview: Lisa Heneghan, global chief digital officer, KPMG

  The advisory and consultancy firm’s former UK CDO has stepped up into a global role – with a whole new set of challenges and opportunities around taking digital transformation further

• December 30, 2022 30 Dec'22

  Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2022

  The team began with a sombre episode about Ukraine and went on to tackle the more familiar topics of diversity, datacentre sustainability and data. New for 22: Cliff Saran’s interviews with IT thought leaders

• December 30, 2022 30 Dec'22

  CDO interview: Barry Panayi, chief data and insight officer, John Lewis Partnership

  Data science and analytics is an increasingly important function across the John Lewis Partnership, covering its retail, grocery and financial services brands

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  CIO interview: David Schwartz, vice-president, PepsiCo Labs

  The food and drinks giant actively seeks out innovative tech startups and runs a programme to find creative ways to use their products to benefit the business

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  Top 10 Nordic IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Nordic IT articles of 2022

• December 28, 2022 28 Dec'22

  Top 10 government IT stories of 2022

  The UK government has been in turmoil for much of 2022, but there’s been plenty going on around the digital transformation of the public sector and the UK economy

• December 28, 2022 28 Dec'22

  Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2022

  The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated the benefits of digital transformation across the health and social care sector – but there is still a long way to go. We look back at the stories that tracked progress in 2022

• December 28, 2022 28 Dec'22

  Top 10 Middle East IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Middle East IT articles of 2022

• December 23, 2022 23 Dec'22

  Top 10 IT leadership interviews of 2022

  Computer Weekly talks to more IT leaders than any other publication, so we can share insights into the latest in strategy and best practice from the top CIOs, CTOs and CDOs

• December 23, 2022 23 Dec'22

  Top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Benelux articles of 2022

• December 23, 2022 23 Dec'22

  Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services IT articles of 2022, looking back at the moves and changes over the past year

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Four-day working week set to stay at Atom bank

  Challenger bank Atom has formalised a four-day working week policy after a successful trial

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  TSB hit with huge fine after IT migration disaster

  TSB has been fined nearly £50m due to failings during its IT migration catastrophe

• December 16, 2022 16 Dec'22

  CIO interview: Steve Capper, CIO, SNC-Lavalin

  Engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin has consolidated its global datacentre estate and implemented private cloud to support the unique demands of its business

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  Criminal Cases Review Commission calls on more convicted subpostmasters to come forward

  The Criminal Cases Review Commission wants more former subpostmasters to come forward if they think they were prosecuted by the Post Office based on data from the error-prone Horizon computer system

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  CIO interview: Andy Pocock, IT director, TrustFord

  The vehicle dealership group has been through a complete digital transformation that embraces cloud, mobile working and automation

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  Microsoft and London Stock Exchange agree £2.3bn 10-year cloud deal

  The London Stock Exchange is building on its acquisition of financial data provider Refinitiv through a deal with Microsoft

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  The nature of the CISO role will be in flux in 2023

  As cyber risk outpaces organisational defences, and cyber attacks and breaches cause more and more damage, the nature of the CISO role is entering a state of flux, according to a report

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  Special educational needs students use virtual reality to help navigate real world

  Students on the autistic spectrum are using virtual reality to help them prepare for real-world interaction

• December 09, 2022 09 Dec'22

  CIISec, DCMS to fund vocational cyber courses for A-level students

  The Chartered Institute of Information Security and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport plan to fund vocational cyber qualifications for 300 teenagers

• December 09, 2022 09 Dec'22

  Digital bank to recruit 1,000 tech experts in Manchester

  App-based bank Starling is adding 1,000 people to its workforce with technology professionals being recruited for its new operation in Manchester

• December 09, 2022 09 Dec'22

  IT system limitations a factor in passport delays

  Limitations in the UK’s passport office IT system led to delays in applicants receiving their documents during a recent period of high demand

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Post Office scandal – “cock-up or cook-up”?

  The second phase of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal raised more questions over who did what, when and where, with shocking revelations at every turn

• December 06, 2022 06 Dec'22

  Finland connects a quantum computer to a supercomputer

  VTT and CSC recently connected a quantum computer with Europe’s fastest supercomputer to enable a hybrid service for researchers

• December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

  Civil servants want more digital skills training, survey finds

  Civil servants are keen to learn more about how to use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI) to improve public services, yet only 5% have received AI training

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  Subpostmaster federation deliberately kept public in dark over computer problems

  The federation representing subpostmasters deliberately suppressed information about computer errors that could have saved its members from devastating life-changing events

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  CIO interview: David Charnley, head of transformation and strategy, NatWest Group

  Data is at the heart of the banking giant’s push to improve customer experience – and to enhance its environmental credentials

• November 27, 2022 27 Nov'22

  Plexal inducts six into cyber leadership scheme

  Tech innovation hub Plexal is expanding its Cyber Runway programme with a new Ignite strand dedicated to supporting high-potential security leaders

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Netherlands wants watchdog to reduce bias in artificial intelligence

  Dutch government will take swift action to prevent citizens getting into trouble due to the misuse of algorithms

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Dutch national cyber security strategy aims to protect digital society

  Cabinet sets up national cyber security strategy to make the Netherlands digitally secure

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  IT services sector hiring slows to pre-pandemic levels

  IT services firms have slowed their recruitment after a major acceleration in hiring during the Covid-19 pandemic

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Businesses must embrace digital skills and innovate, says CBI president

  Brian McBride, president of the Confederation of British Industry, says the UK is a ‘magnet for tech investment’ and calls on UK firms to step up and adapt, as tech adoption will help boost the economy

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  C-suite mystified by cyber security jargon

  Malware, supply chain attack, zero-day, IoC, TTP and Mitre ATT&CK are just some of the everyday terms that security pros use that risk making the world of cyber incomprehensible to outsiders

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Post Office scandal inquiry’s expert IT witness ‘troubled’ by his findings

  Controversial Post Office Horizon system lacked the integrity required to trust accounting data and contained ‘joke’ coding akin to an ‘overly engineered mousetrap’, inquiry told

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Pioneer behind IT systems design dies

  Peter Hermon’s career spanned IT and management, including deploying LEO computers in industry and the integration of IT systems when BA was formed

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Scottish government to pilot digital identity platform in early 2023

  Pilot of Scotland’s digital identity platform will be run in partnership with Disclosure Scotland, using secure sign-on and identity verification

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Team working on controversial Post Office Horizon EPOSS software was the ‘joke of the building’

  Former members of the ICL team developing software for the Post Office Horizon EPOSS system were unqualified and engaged in poor software development practices, public inquiry told

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Netherlands coalition aims to demystify artificial intelligence

  Dutch citizens need to learn about the impact of artificial intelligence on society and their lives, says the Netherlands AI Coalition

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Post Office changed view of Horizon problems before roll-out, because of a ‘sunk cost fallacy’

  Insider tells public inquiry that the Post Office continued to roll out the controversial Horizon system despite a ‘considerable’ number of errors, because it was too committed

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Commoditisation of NHS tech is a problem, says NHS Digital interim CEO

  NHS Digital interim CEO Simon Bolton calls for a stronger mandate from the centre around the systems in use in the NHS, with no more than four to six electronic patient record systems used across the country

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  TikTok influencers are better than finance firms for money advice, say quarter of young adults

  Young people are turning to TikTok-based influencers for advice on how to manage their finances and where to bank

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  CaixaBank robot answers the most customer questions

  AI-based virtual assistant at Spanish bank is now used by over four million customers

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Fujitsu expert witness in subpostmaster trial ‘manoeuvred’ into role, public inquiry told

  A former Fujitsu technology expert who defended the Horizon system’s robustness in court was unhappy after being ‘manoeuvred’ into acting as an expert witness, public inquiry hears

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Six subpostmaster convictions referred for appeal in Scotland

  Six former subpostmasters in Scotland will have appeals against criminal convictions heard after being referred by Scotland’s Criminal Cases Review Commission

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Gartner Symposium: Welcome to the age of force multipliers

  Tech has always been asked to do more with less. Gartner says that if applied correctly, smart IT decisions offer multiple benefits simultaneously