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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

1 Slowly but surely, institutional investors started to recognize that companies could potentially improve financial performance and risk management by focusing on ESG issues like greenhouse gas emissions. The last decade: an evolving landscape By 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the MDGs.

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Information Builders and Capital Markets Consulting Launch Global Partnership to Address Risk Management

Information Builders

Today at the 2015 CEB Financial Services Technology Summit, Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence ( BI ) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, announced a global partnership with Capital Markets Consulting to help banks, investment managers, and regulators facilitate improved data analysis and enable better (..)

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Middle Eastern CISOs work internationally to tackle security issues

CIO Business Intelligence

trillion annually by 2025, up from $3 trillion in 2015, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. End-user spending on security and risk management in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is forecast to total US$2.6 With a yearly growth rate of 15%, global cybercrime damages are predicted to cost up to $10.5

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What a quarter century of digital transformation at PayPal looks like

CIO Business Intelligence

We grew hand in hand with eBay and have continued to do so after separating in 2015.” Today we apply AI and ML across our business, including for fraud reduction, risk management, customer protection, personalized services, and global trade empowerment.”

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Encryption Importance in the Age of Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

In late 2015, Google took the initiative and declared that it would favor sites with HTTPS protocol over those that still didn’t. However, with criminal elements using increasingly sophisticated technology to steal unencrypted passwords and states altering websites, wider use of encryption assumed greater significance.

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Serving the Public Through Data

Cloudera

The Indian government has also been working towards going digital with the launch of Digital India in 2015, a campaign that sought to provide access to government services electronically. Data analytics can help generate positive outcomes for a country, its citizens, and its businesses.

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The trinity of errors in financial models: An introductory analysis using TensorFlow Probability

O'Reilly on Data

Bayesian Risk Management , by Matt Sekerke, Wiley, 2015. Wojciechowski, and E.E. Williams, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Fall 2006. Model Error , by Katerina Simons, New England Economic Review, November 1997.

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