Technology

The shake-up at the top of the company’s ranks comes at a pivotal time for the e-commerce business.

NewCo will free the parent to soar in cloud services, IBM says.

Central banks in countries like Sweden, China, the UK, Uruguay, West Africa, Japan, Singapore, and France are piloting or experimenting with digital currencies.

While fintech was meant to democratize economic power, unconscious biases drove innovation and solutions were designed to generate revenue rather than improve everyone's lives.

Roy Bahat is head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions to reshape the workplace and global markets. Global Finance sat virtually with Bahat to discuss AI, the future of work and venture investing.

eBay's identity crisis continues under new leadership.

The rise of Big Data is changing company leadership structures.

Foreign exchange firm gets hacked via its VPN provider.

Shanker Ramamurthy, General Manager Strategy & Market Development—Industry Platforms at IBM, talks with Global Finance about the breathtaking speed of today’s technologies and what it means for financial services and businesses generally.

Defending against cyber-risk is the future for boards, auditors and finance executives, say regulators. It’s expensive, resource-intensive—and unavoidable.

Facebook's currency seems to be going nowhere fast.

Your friendly neighborhood UPS driver could be replaced by a flying robot sooner than you think.

A relative unknown is positioned to claim Steve Jobs' throne.

Everyone is moving to the cloud—including criminals.

The era of a tax-free internet commerce may be coming to an end.

3D printing continues to displace traditional manufacturing methods.

The public cloud is convenient but risky. So companies are turning to hybrid and multicloud arrangements—or even bringing their data back onto private-cloud networks. 

Innovation in the consumer payments sector vastly outstrips innovation in the business payments sector but that need not be the case according to Bottomline Business Payments Roundtable participants.

Digital innovations have utterly transformed payments, making every choice more personal—and more mobile.

Using technology and creativity, banks help clients—big and small—reduce paperwork and costs.