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CW500 and IT leadership skills
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May 12, 2023
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May'23
Post Office lawyer bragged how team ‘destroyed attack on the Horizon system’ and put woman in prison
A senior Post Office lawyer appeared gleeful in email about how his team helped prosecute a subpostmaster who was sent to prison
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May 11, 2023
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May'23
Fujitsu staff had ‘unrestricted and unauditable’ remote access to Post Office branch systems
Fujitsu engineers could make changes to Post Office branch accounts without anyone knowing
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May 10, 2023
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May'23
UKtech50 2023: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology
Our judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of more than 300 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology
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May 09, 2023
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May'23
UKtech50 2023: The longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders
Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2023
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May 05, 2023
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May'23
Employee perception may be key to success of UAE’s big data initiative
Study shows the impact employee perception can have on big data projects in the United Arab Emirates
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May 05, 2023
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May'23
Open banking use to increase 470% in next four years, driven from Europe
Europe is leading the surge in the take-up of API-based open banking services, according to Juniper Research
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May 04, 2023
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May'23
Age UK calls for physical banking hubs as older people demand face-to-face banking
UK charity calls for banks and government to speed up the introduction of physical banking hubs as research reveals millions of older people don’t bank online
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May 03, 2023
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May'23
Artificial intelligence: Business leaders start to realise the risks
ChatGPT and other large language models can rewrite value, and business leaders now realise they need a plan
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May 02, 2023
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May'23
UK Cyber Security Council launches certification mapping tool
Cyber careers body aims to offer clarity for professionals seeking to advance through security certification
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April 28, 2023
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Apr'23
More Post Office software-related convictions overturned takes total to 86
A total of 86 former subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted for financial crimes after computer errors showed phantom losses have had convictions overturned
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April 27, 2023
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Apr'23
Zopa’s emotional journey to becoming a bank
Zopa Bank’s CEO sees no reason why the app-based bank should not be as big as the high street giants
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April 26, 2023
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Apr'23
Post Office paid IBM millions when it ended proposed contract to replace Horizon
The Post Office ended a proposed contract with IBM to replace its controversial Horizon system after work had already started
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April 25, 2023
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Apr'23
CISOs under-supported, under pressure, Trellix finds
The vast majority of CISOs say they are finding it difficult to get sign-off on the resources they need to do their job
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April 25, 2023
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Apr'23
Lloyds Bank joins industry IT standards group
UK banking giant Lloyds Banking Group has joined an industry group which promotes global IT standards
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April 25, 2023
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Apr'23
UAE improves healthcare through information technology
Health authorities in the United Arab Emirates are increasing their emphasis on new, smart technologies to modernise healthcare services
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April 24, 2023
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Apr'23
Finland and Estonia deepen cross-border digital partnerships
Finland and Estonia, two global tech pioneers, are increasingly sharing their expertise
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April 21, 2023
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Apr'23
Biases keep Dutch girls out of STEM and IT
Unconscious stereotypes and bias still ensure few girls in the Netherlands choose to study engineering or IT. Government, education and businesses need to make significant steps to turn this around
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April 20, 2023
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Apr'23
Banks don’t want to develop fintech in-house
Banks are increasingly partnering with fintechs to gain access to their platforms, with few interested in developing such capabilities in-house
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April 19, 2023
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Apr'23
IT Priorities 2023: Budget optimism among EMEA IT leaders
IT leaders across the EMEA region are optimistic that their budgets will increase over the coming year
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April 18, 2023
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Apr'23
Reduced spending on cloud services weighs European IT services market down
Reduced spending on cloud services in the EMEA region meant a year-on-year drop in total IT and BPO services spend
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April 14, 2023
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Apr'23
Global spending on IT and BPO down as cloud deals slow
Spending on IT and BPO services drops as demand for cloud services slows
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April 13, 2023
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Apr'23
Sweden and Finland make advances in quantum computing
Separate Swedish and Finnish quantum computing projects make promising advances in the technology of the future
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April 12, 2023
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Apr'23
Gartner: Rebalance cyber investment towards human-centric elements
Security decision-makers need to reprioritise their investment outlooks towards people, rather than technology, according to the latest market forecast from Gartner
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April 11, 2023
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Apr'23
NatWest supports tech training for displaced Ukrainian women
NatWest bank joins scheme to give tech training to displaced Ukrainian women in Scotland
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April 11, 2023
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Apr'23
Anne Keast-Butler named as new director of GCHQ
The government has appointed current MI5 deputy director general Anne Keast-Butler to head signals and cyber agency GCHQ
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April 11, 2023
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Apr'23
UKtech50 2023: Help us find the most influential people in UK IT
Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is back – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year’s list
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April 11, 2023
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Apr'23
DWP appoints former Boots IT chief Richard Corbridge as CDIO
In his new role as the chief digital and information officer for the Department for Work and Pensions, Corbridge will be responsible for a £1.4bn annual budget
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April 06, 2023
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Apr'23
IBM's Nataraj Nagaratnam on the cyber challenges facing cloud services
Governments are introducing increasingly prescriptive data protection policies, but with organisations becoming ever more reliant on multiple cloud service platforms for essential business needs, how can they ensure they meet regulatory requirements?
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April 06, 2023
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Apr'23
Government on the hunt for national tech adviser
Applicants for the role, which pays up to £135,000, will need to have “deep experience” of innovation and technology development, along with a “fantastic network” in the sector
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April 06, 2023
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Apr'23
CCRC says ‘door open’ for more reviews of subpostmaster convictions
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has told former Post Office workers the door is still open for them to come forward if they were prosecuted for financial crimes based on evidence from Horizon software
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April 04, 2023
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Apr'23
UAE central bank selects partners for phase one of digital currency programme
The UAE central bank has kicked off the first phase of its project to launch a digital currency
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April 03, 2023
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Apr'23
Lloyds and NatWest banks join Barclays in latest round of branch closures
Lloyds and NatWest banks announce more branch closures as UK high streets continue to be stripped of banking services
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March 31, 2023
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Mar'23
Generative AI central to Accenture’s tech vision
Generative AI will play a central role over the next 10 years as the digital and physical world become more and more integrated
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March 30, 2023
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Mar'23
NCSC issues revised security Board Toolkit for business leaders
National Cyber Security Centre calls on CEOs and senior business leaders to take a more hands-on approach to cyber resilience with the launch of revised board-level tools
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March 28, 2023
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Mar'23
BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy
BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint
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March 28, 2023
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Mar'23
Barclays makes further cut to branch network
Barclays cuts another 14 branches from its network as it continues to see a migration to digital banking channels
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March 27, 2023
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Mar'23
Many of world’s biggest banks lack transparent policies for responsible AI
It is unclear whether many of the world’s largest banks have adopted and are using ethical artificial intelligence development principles
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March 24, 2023
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Mar'23
National Crime Agency sting operation infiltrates cyber crime market
The UK National Crime Agency has tricked thousands of potential cyber criminals into registering with a fake website pretending to offer tools for creating DDoS attacks
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March 24, 2023
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Mar'23
Accenture to cut 19,000 jobs globally
Accenture is cutting ‘structural’ costs which includes a reduction of 19,000 staff and a consolidation of office space
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March 23, 2023
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Mar'23
Nationwide Building Society begins another ‘generational’ tech change
Nationwide Building Society's migration of its payments to a cloud-based software platform is a ‘generational change’
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March 23, 2023
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Mar'23
US bakery pilots Amazon tech for palm payments
Amazon's palm-scanning authentication technology is being used by US bakery and café chain to boost use of its loyalty programme
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March 21, 2023
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Mar'23
Danish law firm transforms digital collaboration through core system replacement
NJORD has transformed how it shares documents among lawyers through a cloud-based platform
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March 20, 2023
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Mar'23
NatWest announces ID service for its customers
The identities of NatWest customers engaging with businesses online can be confirmed by the bank's ID service in seconds
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March 17, 2023
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Mar'23
CIO interview: Russ Thornton, chief technology officer, Shawbrook Bank
Russ Thornton swapped life on the theatre podium for financial services IT, but thrives in an environment where orchestrating IT teams is a core skill
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March 15, 2023
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Mar'23
IT gives Ukrainian economy resilience in the face of adversity
Computer Weekly speaks to IT companies from Kharkiv a year after the Ukrainian city became headline news across the world as Russian troops invaded
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March 15, 2023
15
Mar'23
UK government commits £2.5bn to boost quantum
Decade of funding aims to fast-track quantum computing engineers to the UK and drive business adoption of this emerging technology
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March 13, 2023
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Mar'23
Subpostmaster demands names of Post Office executives who crushed him to suffocate truth
One Post Office scandal victim was deliberately destroyed by the Post Office to deter other subpostmasters from challenging the integrity of its core computer system
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March 13, 2023
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Mar'23
Government expects to save £1.8bn from back-office systems overhaul
Whitehall announces it expects to save £1.8bn over a 15-year period by delivering shared back-office services, three months after a National Audit Office (NAO) report concluded the financial benefits of the plan remain unclear
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March 10, 2023
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Mar'23
Government departments need to better understand digital transformation or efforts will ‘peter out’
National Audit Office report says that the people making digital transformation decisions in government don't properly understand the challenges
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March 08, 2023
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Mar'23
CDO interview: Athina Kanioura, chief strategy and transformation officer, PepsiCo
Multinational food, snack and beverage firm PepsiCo is halfway through a five-year digital transformation strategy that aims to create ‘a totally different company’