Algorithms

HSBC’s Global Trade and Receivables Finance (GTRF) business has deployed an industry-leading anti-money laundering (AML) system and an automated sanctions checking system as part of its ongoing efforts to improve financial crime detection. In what’s an industry first, the new customer surveillance system uses Big…

The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is partnering with the defence and security-focused Think Tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) to carry out research into the potential for algorithmic bias in policing and how to ensure adequate oversight of these technologies. RUSI…

Security and Safety Things (SAST) is presenting innovative use cases for security cameras at CES 2019 which runs from 8-11 January. These are the first to be developed on the basis of SAST’s open Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem for the security industry. The use…

The built environment is changing to an ever-greater degree. New and innovative technologies now offer increasingly clearer insights into how workplaces are used. We’re poised on the threshold of new methodologies that will transform how we work, protect people and control our environment. Here, Chris…

BlackBerry has entered into a definitive agreement to wholly acquire Cylance, a specialist in the spheres of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cyber security, for US$1.4 billion in cash, plus the assumption of unvested employee incentive awards. This will be BlackBerry’s biggest-ever acquisition deal. Pending regulatory…

Video fire/smoke detection is a safety solution based on the computer analysis of images provided by standard CCTV cameras linked to a self-contained processing system capable of recognising smoke and flame patterns within the video image. Here, Risk Xtra interviews the Fire Industry Association’s CEO…

Kronos has launched Workforce Dimensions, a new workforce management solution that’s said to “represent the next generation of workforce technology”. Every dimension – the underlying architecture, user experience, functionality, integration, data access, delivery and support – is designed to help optimise the most valuable resource…

The Biometrics Institute has just released a detailed guidance document for members and key stakeholders entitled: ‘Top 10 Vulnerability Questions’ in which the organisation duly provides clarification around some of the most frequently asked questions about the ‘spoofing’ of biometrics. “We’ve been following the research of…