An essential investment that companies must make in their compliance efforts is in tools for automating and improving auditing and reporting capabilities. The benefits accruing to companies that achieve regulatory compliance include improved...
The EC is also looking at creating a European Border Surveillance System with the aim of preventing unauthorised border crossings, reducing the number of illegal immigrants dying at sea and reducing cross-border crime within the EU.
Sun's N1 initiative, for example, is aimed primarily at automating data centre operations, as is HP's Utility Data Center products. IBM on Friday will attempt to establish industry guidelines for the emerging field of highly automated computing...
We have had great success in reducing benefit fraud. The DWP said while many benefits are linked to each other, business processes are not fully automated so errors can creep in as staff have to make calculations offline.
The move will finally bring the UK financial sector in line with the rest of Europe in reducing the current three-day clearance time for electronic banking payments. Apacs has now said the new system will be introduced by the end of 2007 and that...
Firms have until 30 January next year to comment on the Reducing money laundering risk discussion paper, which the FSA will use as a basis for deciding whether more formal rules need to be included in its handbook.