Regulation stories
Enterprises can now deploy quantum-safe signing in production as Cloud KMS adds post-quantum algorithms for sensitive records and transactions.
Despite near-universal uptake, most ANZ SMEs still distrust AI to make cyber security decisions as incidents continue to disrupt work.
European firms facing tighter rules and AI-driven attacks will get a locally hosted security service that keeps data in Germany.
Demand for data management and AI services is rising in Australia and New Zealand, and Iron Mountain has hired Dominic Del Giudice to capitalise.
The appointment aims to bolster Databricks' regional ecosystem as customers in Asia Pacific and Japan spend more on AI and data projects.
Expansion in Australia and New Zealand is expected to deepen Qualys' managed risk services push as it adds four local hires.
The change comes as business schools face mounting pressure from rapid technological shifts and tougher global competition for students and staff.
The approval could let the fintech broaden regulated services in Singapore, where it serves more than 10,000 small and medium-sized merchants.
Businesses face a growing compliance burden as regulators push post-quantum upgrades, and SafeLogic is aiming to ease the search for hidden cryptography.
Growing demand in Asia and other emerging markets has driven OwlPay Harbor's business payments above USD $600 million by June.
The ranking underscores Payward's push beyond crypto trading as it broadens Kraken into a wider financial infrastructure group.
Banks could cut onboarding and compliance workloads as Fenergo's Fen-AI ties every AI action to a full audit trail for regulators.
Almost half of Australian organisations now have AI chiefs, with the role set to become a permanent fixture as governance concerns grow.
Severe arrears are deepening among vulnerable borrowers, even as post-Easter spending fell and repayments ticked higher in May.
Banks are moving AI into live, regulated systems, putting pressure on software vendors to prove every instruction is authorised and auditable.
The tie-up aims to cut data silos and manual reconciliation for logistics firms under pressure to link warehouse, finance and workforce systems.
Banks are adopting stablecoins, tokenisation and digital custody as crypto's ideas quietly reshape payments, settlement and asset transfer.
Many firms have scaled back research, hiring and projects after HMRC tightened the UK's R&D tax relief rules, a survey finds.
Mid-market firms in financial, insurance and consulting services face the highest ransomware risk, with attacks now striking faster and costing far more.
Broader duties in the UK's proposed cyber law could divert scarce staff from frontline defence, worsening already acute skills gaps.
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