EBRD Lowers Ukraine 2025 Growth Forecast To 4.7 Per Cent
By Vanora Bennett Despite months of heavy Russian attacks on its energy facilities, Ukraine’s economy is expected to grow by 3.0...
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Growth In EBRD Regions Trimmed As Economies Adjust To New Realities
By Ksenia Yakustidi The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has revised slightly downwards its expectations of growth across the regions where it invests. Its latest Regional Economic Prospects report gives a growth figure for 2024 of 2.8 per cent, 0.2 percentage points down on its previous forecast in May 2024. The Bank – which works in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe, Central Asia and the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region – cites varying performance trajectories across its economies. In 2025, it expects growth of 3.5 per cent,...
The Crucial Role Of AI In Enhancing Compliance Management For Fintech
In the complex landscape of financial regulation, compliance managers play a pivotal role, often finding themselves at the forefront of...
FTC Formally Sues PBMs Over Insulin Prices And Warns Manufacturers
By Noah Tong The Federal Trade Commission is suing the titans of the pharmacy benefit manager industry for anticompetitive practices...
The GSMA Responsible AI Maturity Roadmap Champions Are Axiata, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica And Telstra
By Cyber Era NG Special Correspondent The McKinsey Global Institute has estimated that the total impact of AI for MNOs...
Underground Demand For Malicious LLMs Is Robust
By Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) The underground market for illicit large language models is a lucrative one, said academic researchers...
Transforming AI Hardware: IISc’s Neuromorphic Computing Platform Sets New Benchmark
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a brain-inspired analog computing platform capable of storing and processing...
So You Want To Build A Quantum Computer?
By Alexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW For all the hype, funding and policy around quantum computing, there is still a lot of basic scientific research to be done to bring a quantum information system to life. Leading researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois spoke with Nextgov/FCW about the integrative work that bridges the gap between theory and practice, with applications and scalability a distant but feasible goal. The research is interdisciplinary, combining work in fields like materials science, nanoscale systems, photonic engineering and computer science. Applying the laws of...
EEOC Research Finds Unequal Opportunity In The High Tech Sector And Workforce
By Godson Umejiego, Bureau Chief, The Americas The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released a report, “High Tech,...
How Will The EU’s AI Act Impact The Financial Market?
The Artificial Intelligence Act officially came into force on 1 August 2024. The Act, one of the first of its kind, establishes a common regulatory and legal framework for AI within the European Union. How will it impact the financial sector? According to head of legal analysis at Corlytics, Susie Mackenzie regulating AI represents a challenge to regulators as they seek to balance encouraging innovation with managing its risks. She said, “The EU Act is an important milestone in the global regulatory framework as it is the first attempt to...