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Capital Report | June 01, 2020

While it is a cliche to observe that data is the gold of the 21st century, few have considered the role of processing in this metaphor: raw data must be processed to become precious. At the scale of most businesses, the volume of data is too great for human...

Reuters | April 10, 2020

Saudi Arabia, Russia and their allies will press Mexico on Friday to join an accord for collective oil production cuts equivalent to 10% of global supplies and will push the United States and other producers to remove a further 5%. The plan for cuts top the agenda for Friday’s video conference of energy ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) major economies, after Moscow, Riyadh and others in the OPEC+ group forged a deal in marathon talks on Thursday, only to have it stumble when Mexico bal...

Wall Street | March 03, 2020

U.S. stock markets fell sharply on Tuesday on worries that even a half percentage-point cut in interest rates might not be enough to stave off the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak and halt the worst sell-off in more than a decade. It was the Federal Reserve’s first emergency rate cut since the 2008 financial crisis, underscoring how grave the central bank views the fast-evolving situation. Stocks initially jumped more than 1% on the news, but gains soon petered out as analysts a...

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IBM | July 30, 2021

IBM and SAP SE announced today that SAP would onboard two of its finance and data management products to IBM Cloud for Financial Services, accelerating IBM cloud adoption in the financial services industry. The collaboration will be geared to assist the companies in meeting the industry's high compliance, security, and resiliency standards, as well as to support financial services institutions' business transformation and innovation. Hybrid cloud environments are becoming ...