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The Burning Need to Update Telecommunications and Network Security

When it comes to cybersecurity, telcos are faced with a wide range of diversity and complexity, including distributed and cloud RAN, Edge and Cloud Core, enterprise and subscriber devices, gateways, hubs, set-top boxes, multi-capacity routers, switches, base transceiver stations, femtocells, and 5G edge gateways. Hacker groups, APT groups and clusters, and malware creators frequently target […]

Noel Moukheiber: A Leadership Promoting Innovation

Payment gateways have become the backbones of the incipient cashless economy, playing an indispensable role in connecting the financial world with consumers. Yet to guarantee the success of such a central division in the economic sphere, having a distinctive sense of leadership is crucial. Noel Moukheiber’s leadership skills are the fuel driving his team’s transformation […]

Down the Rabbit Hole of Software Defined Networking

Nothing ever remains as it is; everything changes and evolves. And with the world changing and relying increasingly on technology, organizations’ needs are expanding, compelling technologies requiring substantially more computing resources, labor, and planning to operate correctly. Experts developed and applied the advantages of software defined networking (SDN) technology to breach that gap. SDN technology […]

What the Future holds for Cryptocurrencies

The crypto market has had a disastrous first half of 2022. Bitcoin and ethereum have dropped by more than half since their all-time highs in late 2021. While there have been some tiny gains in recent weeks, the cryptocurrency market as a whole remains relatively stagnant. While no one knows for certain, some analysts believe […]

China Will Move to Protect Its Firms Following U.S. Telecoms Ban

China opposes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s ban on new Chinese telecommunications equipment sales, the commerce ministry said on Thursday, vowing to adopt necessary measures to safeguard the rights of its domestic firms. The Biden administration on Friday banned the sale or import of new telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies and ZTE, citing national […]

Shares Rise, U.S. Treasury Yields Drop as Fed Minutes Suggest Slower Rate Hikes

World equities rose while U.S. Treasury yields retreated on Wednesday after minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting showed U.S. central bankers looking to soon moderate the pace of interest rate hikes. A “substantial majority” of Fed policymakers agreed it would “likely soon be appropriate” to slow the pace of interest rate hikes, the […]

Logistical Challenges for Doing Business in South Africa

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is witnessing a recession of epic proportions. In a November article on BUSINESSTECH, BNP Paribas chief economist for the Middle East and Africa, Jeff Schultz, stated that considering the recession in 2023 that the U.S and Europe will be facing soon and China’s attempts to tweak its zero-Covid policy, […]

7 Cyber Security Trends in Financial Services

Cyberattacks are no longer phantom ghosts that come to haunt enterprises once in a blue moon. Today, cybercrimes have gained momentum and are luring, targeting, and attacking enterprises worldwide, and with that increase comes a heightened need to further optimize cyber security trends in financial services. The third quarter (Q3) of 2022 witnessed a rise […]

Special Report-Ftx’s Bankman-Fried Begged for a Rescue Even as He Revealed Huge Holes in Firm’s Books

As customers withdrew billions of dollars from crypto exchange FTX one frantic Sunday this month, founder Sam Bankman-Fried worked the phones in a futile bid to raise $7 billion in emergency funds. Hunkered in his Bahamas apartment, Bankman-Fried toiled through the night, calling some of the world’s biggest investors, including Sequoia Capital, Apollo Global Management […]