Investigators in Sacramento have arrested Joseph James DeAngelo for rape, but they only found him based on records from a genealogical website.

The effort wasn’t easy, but this guy is now off the streets. The process started with taking a look at DNA that was collected from the crime scene, which happened many years ago. Investigators didn’t have a match. However, recently, they started comparing DNA with genetic profiles that have been collected from ancestry sties. These are companies that coll

Chief risk officers and heads of operational risk responded to a survey held by Risk.net and identified their top risk concerns. Their number one concern was IT disruption, while their second highest concern was data compromise. Why is cybersecurity risk on everyone’s mind?

For one thing, technology is an inescapable reality of every business. Even the smallest of mom and pop shops have an electronic system to make credit card transactions, while larger corporations rely on immense data centers t

Many FIs are looking to SMB lending as a source of growth, but at the same time mindful of credit risk that can increase if the loans are made with hasty underwriting. Sageworks, a financial information company that offers portfolio risk software, was just awarded the Innovation Award for Business Lending due to the company's headway into automating SMB lending processes while offering to benchmark, global cash flow analysis and other functionalities that allow FIs to quickly and accurately meas

Year over year, scandals like Wells Fargo, Equifax, Chipotle and so many others have dominated news headlines as they wreak havoc on consumers, investors, and awaken industry and government regulators. What is driving this trend?

Consumers have entrusted corporations with increasing involvement and influence in their lives through the decades. In 2014, for example, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have some of the rights and responsibilities as natural persons. In other words, corporatio

7 Uses of Exponential Technology We’re Excited to Watch in 2017

Source: Singularity University

This post was originally published on Singularity Hub. These excerpts that follow were written by Singularity Hub team members.

By:

Alison E. Berman

Covering technology is exhilarating.

Each year is filled with unforeseen surprises — advances we thought were years away, unexpected technology applications (like AI used for mental healthcare), and unlikely startups reimagining entire markets.

These breakthrough

6 Tools Entrepreneurs Must Master

Business Model Innovation Presentation: The New Trigger for Great Startups

Source: SlideShare featuring David Skok, General Partner at Matrix Partners

Unlike the past where technology innovation was the primary driver of startup creation, in the last ten years, it has frequently been innovation in new business models that has caused the disruption to create the opening for new companies. This presentation by David Skok of Matrix Partners looks in depth at the key business model changes that are ca

Reduce your cost of claims by as much as an additional 30%.

Serving 13 countries, Gleason Technology works with Risk Managers to better monitor critical operations that could potentially lead to a hazard within the facility. Their patented location-driven technology time and date stamps any operation while verifying all objectives were within compliance and have met the standards set by the company. 

The results are incredible!

24 Concepts Every Young Person Should Know About Business

Source:

Steve Mariotti

Founder of Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Author of An Entrepreneur's Manifesto

The Babson College definition of entrepreneurship is: "A way of thinking and acting that is opportunity obsessed, holistic in approach, and leadership balanced."

In honor of the Urban Entrepreneurship Summit being held at Rutgers Business School in Newark today, I wanted to present my thoughts on what the younger generation nee

Enrique Suarez Presenting:

Robots Will Cut 25% of US Jobs in 4 years, Transform Workforce

Source:

RT

27 August 2015

The encroachment of self-help kiosks and grocery store scanners has led doomsayers to suggest automation threatens the workforce of the future. A new report argues it will create new business sectors and new jobs as well.

By studying large companies in various industries, from Delta Airlines Inc. to Whole Foods Market Inc., as well as many startups, analysts have forecast that automation

 The Internet Of Things (IoT) Has Arrived - What You Should Know

by Chuck Brooks 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/internet-things-iot-has-arrived-what-you-should-know-chuck-brooks

We have entered a new era of scientific breakthroughs and technological applications that will change life as we know it. Accelerated technological development is transforming our civilization. The pace of innovation is growing so rapidly that it is becoming exponential as each year passes.

 Futurist Dr. Michio Kaku charact

I want to thank whomever is responsible for choosing me as a featured member for this month.

While new to this group, I am not new to the risk management community.  For a number of years I was an entrepreneur with several start ups.  I based my leap into entrepreneurship on 13 years on the business side of four major newspaper in Des Moines, IA, Chicago Tribune, Charlotte (NC) Observer, and Memphis (TN) Publishing Company.  Rising through the corporate ranks to the executive suite at a young ag

With the recent introduction of recording for voice and SMS on mobile phones for trading activities in the UK, many technologists were raising the issue of “Big Data” as additional voice recording requirements contribute to the growing repository of data being held by their firms to meet with regulator requirements. Although regulators around the globe are driving for greater visibility and a more comprehensive record of past trading activities, this additional data can also serve a purpose in o

Focusing on technological innovation, business strategy and geographical markets, this guide provides thought leadership on how capital markets firms can capitalize on real-time data and leverage new risk strategies for a trading advantage.  

26 January 2011

Paul Clarke from eFinancialCareers