The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday warned against governments trying to weaken their currencies through monetary easing or market interventions, arguing in a blog post that this would hurt the functioning of the international monetary system and make all nations worse off.
Archives for 2019
FASB Proposes ASU on Long-Duration Contracts
The FASB proposed an ASU on long-duration contracts today. The FASB issues proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that would grant all insurance companies that issue long-duration contracts, such as life insurance and annuities, additional time to apply a standard that addresses this area of financial reporting. Stakeholders are encouraged to review and provide comment on the […]
Have a Failing Big Data Project? Try a Dose of AI
A growing number of AI experts are turning their attention to big data. Will that be enough to save doomed projects?
Three Tips for Laying the Groundwork for Machine Learning
While machine learning may seem overwhelming and complicated, creating an infrastructure for ML projects is more achievable than many organizations think.
U.S. regulators hand Wall Street a major win with stripped-down ‘Volcker Rule’
U.S. banking regulators on Tuesday approved changes easing a rule introduced after the 2007-2009 financial crisis that bans banks from trading on their own account, giving Wall Street one of its biggest wins under the Trump administration.
10 RPA Vendors to Watch
Robotic process automation offers enterprises a way to leapfrog to the benefits of digital transformation. Here are 10 vendors that can help in your efforts.
Reducing SAP implementations from months to minutes with Azure Logic Apps
It's always been a tricky business to handle mission-critical processes. Much of the technical debt that companies assume comes from having to architect systems that have multiple layers of redundancy, to mitigate the chance of outages that may severely impact customers. The process of both architecting and subsequently maintaining these systems has resulted in huge […]
Azure Security Center single click remediation and Azure Firewall JIT support
This blog post was co-authored by Rotem Lurie, Program Manager, Azure Security Center. Azure Security Center provides you with a bird’s eye security posture view across your Azure environment, enabling you to continuously monitor and improve your security posture using secure score in Azure. Security Center helps you identify and perform the hardening tasks recommended […]
Who is listening to your most intimate conversations?
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“I do believe that AI is the largest technology force of our time. We will not likely see another one like this. The automation of automation, the automation of intelligence, is such an incredible idea that if we could continue to improve this capability, the applications are really quite boundless. When you think […]
Oil up 1% after attack on Saudi field, but OPEC report caps gains
Oil prices were up more than 1% on Monday after a weekend attack on a Saudi oil facility by Yemen’s Houthi forces and as traders looked for signs that top economies would take measures to counteract a global slowdown.