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• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services and fintech stories of 2019

• December 24, 2019 24 Dec'19

  Top 10 CIO interviews of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 CIO interviews of 2019

• December 24, 2019 24 Dec'19

  Former Post Office CEO apologises to subpostmasters over Horizon scandal

  Subpostmasters criticise former CEO’s apology for their suffering as “too little, too late”

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  Loan charge review results: Government agrees to policy amendments to cut tax bills of 30,000 people

  The government has announced a package of amendments to the loan charge policy that will remove 11,000 people from its scope, and cut the tax bills of 30,000 others

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  National Federation of Subpostmasters cries foul after court ruling on controversial computer system

  The National Federation of Subpostmasters said it was misled by the Post Office about the robustness of the IT systems its members use

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  EU court opinion finds EU-US data transfers lawful but raises questions over Privacy Shield

  The Advocate General of the European Court says standard contractual clauses are lawful, but raises questions over the impact of US surveillance on the legality of Privacy Shield

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  Criminal Courts Review Commission to review Horizon judgment ‘swiftly’

  The CCRC’s review of potentially unfair prosecutions of subpostmasters is just one of the unresolved issues in in relation to subpostmasters’ battle with the Post Office over its faulty IT system

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  HM Treasury mulls loan charge review findings, but will not confirm public release date

  Contractor community frustrated by lack of concrete release date for review as loan charge settlement date of 31 January 2020 looms

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  European Court of Justice rules that under-licensing is IP theft

  Ruling from the European Court of Justice says that French mobile operator, Free Mobile, infringed the copyright of software company IT development

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Australia IT stories of 2019

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  Subpostmasters proved right on IT system failures as calls for full public inquiry mount

  Post Office has been “in denial” about the robustness of its core retail system, which a judge said was to blame for problems experienced by subpostmasters in a multimillion-pound group action

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Release of loan charge review must be prioritised by new government, urge IT contractors

  With prime minister Boris Johnson expected to announce a reshuffle of his new-look government today, IT contracting stakeholders are calling for the publication of the loan charge review to be prioritised and for the 31 January 2020 settlement date ...

• December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19

  Subpostmasters got the best deal possible in legal battle with the Post Office, says lawyer

  Subpostmasters ended their legal battle with the Post Office at the optimal time, according to the lawyer that managed the High Court action

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Why Lendlease is embracing digital twin technology

  Australia-based property developer Lendlease is using digital twins and other technologies to break the bulwark of rising costs and declining productivity in the construction sector

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Lloyd's of London secures £300m for digital transformation

  Lloyd's of London has secured funding for a modernisation programme that will start next year

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Post Office settles legal dispute with subpostmasters, ending 20-year battle for lead claimant

  The Post Office has settled its long-running legal dispute with subpostmasters, and will pay £57.75m in damages

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  How can CIOs in Europe turn innovation into a competitive advantage?

  CIOs across Europe are under pressure to innovate to help businesses grow and must think differently as a result

• December 10, 2019 10 Dec'19

  APAC IT leaders lay out priorities for 2020

  Robotic process automation and data analytics are among the top priorities for IT leaders in the Asia-Pacific region in the new year

• December 10, 2019 10 Dec'19

  Autonomous ships on Dutch horizon

  The Port of Rotterdam is creating an environment where autonomous ships will become the norm, through IoT and IBM Watson

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  US Department of Justice orders Ericsson to pay $1bn fine to settle bribery case

  Swedish comms tech giant admitted what US attorney described as “years-long campaign of corruption in five countries to solidify its grip on telecommunications business”

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Dutch government must sort IT mess as priority

  Dutch government lacks the knowledge and skills for its own IT strategy, according to scathing report

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Black Hat Europe: Red teams and blue teams must evolve in the 2020s

  The red team versus blue team dichotomy is somewhat arbitrary and risks pigeonholing skilled security professionals into certain roles, says Facebook’s Amanda Rousseau

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS plans renewable energy project in Australia

  AWS’s renewable energy project in Australia is one of six projects that the cloud supplier is spearheading to reduce its global carbon footprint

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Tenable buys Indegy to integrate IT and OT security

  Acquisition of industrial security specialist Indegy will create a unified, risk-based platform spanning both IT and OT security for Tenable

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Goldman Sachs reins in cloud-based retail challenger in UK

  Bank does not want rapidly expanding Marcus to breach deposits threshold at which UK banks have to ring-fence their retail operations

• November 29, 2019 29 Nov'19

  Hack Friday: This Christmas, fight back against cyber criminals

  It’s nearly Christmas, and cyber attacks and fraud attempts in the retail sector are ramping up. Is it time to panic? And is there anything we can do beyond hammering home the message around basic cyber security hygiene?

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  How Intel has put the brakes on Windows 10 refresh

  IT departments have until 14 January 2020 to update their PCs to Windows 10, but a shortage of Intel chips may scupper their plans

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  TSB neglected to assess capabilities of main IT provider in its failed system migration

  TSB failed to properly assess and manage the internal service provider that led its botched IT migration

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Staff in smaller businesses bogged down by poor communications

  Inadequate communications between senior management and staff in small to medium-sized enterprises is leading to poor decision-making

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  How APAC firms can unleash the power of creative disruption

  Regional business leaders at the recent Leap Summit in Malaysia talked up the blueprint for creative disruption, which includes scaling up an idea and overcoming the distribution challenge, among other areas

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Enterprises muddled over cloud security responsibilities

  A McAfee study suggests that 2020 will be a big year for cloud adoption, but confusion still persists over who is responsible for securing it

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  AI may open dangerous new frontiers in geopolitics

  Truly artificial intelligence has the potential to provoke an international geopolitical crisis, warns F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Tim Berners-Lee launches nine principles for the web

  Inventor of the worldwide web sets out Contract for the Web to protect its freedom, data privacy and access for all

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Labour pledges review of NCSC in UK security overhaul

  The UK's National Cyber Security Centre may get expanded powers under a Labour government

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Western Union transfers to AWS cloud

  Western Union is the latest financial services form to set out a future in the Amazon Web Services cloud

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Lib Dem election manifesto: Party vows to scrap loan charge and review IR35 private sector reforms

  The Liberal Democrats’ General Election manifesto sees the party pledge to scrap the controversial loan charge policy, and undertake a review of the IR35 private sector reforms

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Swedish hospitals suffer IT crashes

  Hospitals in Sweden’s West Götaland region have suffered computer problems because of as-yet unexplained hard drive crashes

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Mimecast blocked 99 billion suspicious emails in third quarter

  Latest threat intelligence report reveals the scale of the threat posed by malicious emails, with the transport, legal and financial sectors hit hardest

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Massive increase in fraud attacks on TSB customers during IT meltdown

  There was a massive spike in attempts by fraudsters to steal from TSB customers when the bank’s IT systems failed in 2018

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Businesses failing to wipe data from old endpoints

  Organisations are not taking adequate precautions to sanitise data held on endpoints when refreshing their PC or mobile device estates

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  TSB programme pulled apart in report on IT meltdown

  City law firm tears into TSB’s management of botched core banking platform migration

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  IR35 reforms put IT contractors at risk of 'second wave' of loan charge-like tax bills, experts warn

  Concerns raised over re-emergence of umbrella firms targeting IT contractors with loan-based remuneration schemes ahead of the private sector IR35 reforms coming into play

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Foreign e-commerce giants threaten Nordic high streets

  Surveys show up to 40% of high-street stores in Sweden and Finland could face closure by 2030 as retailers seek to combat e-commerce threat

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Home Office Brexit app contains multiple security flaws

  The Home Office’s Brexit app may be putting EU citizens’ personal data at risk

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Cyber criminals tool up for Christmas fraud season

  Organised criminals are trying to cash in on the festive retail boom with both brand new and tried-and-tested techniques

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Finnish biometric identity plans for seamless air travel

  Finnair and Finavia explore options for automatic digital identification and authentication of air travellers

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Attack on Labour shows need for DDoS defence but should alarm few

  After being hit by two DDoS attacks in the space of 24 hours, many commentators are convinced the UK’s Labour Party is the victim of foreign interference in the General Election campaign. It probably isn’t

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  ‘Robust’ security foils cyber attack on Labour Party

  Labour claims to have been the victim of a cyber attack, but says it is confident no data leaked

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Australia’s productivity woes pinned on poor employee experience

  Research by Ricoh suggests that the lukewarm view of employee experience among IT leaders is part of the reason for Australia’s declining productivity

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Major report on TSB IT disaster expected soon

  A damning report into the 2018 IT disaster at TSB is expected to heavily criticise executives when it is published in November