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Transparency International warned that “conflict creates opportunities for corruption and subverts governments’ efforts to stop it” in unveiling the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on January 31, scoring 180 countries worldwide on perceived levels of public sector corruption from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).…

Transparency International (TI) has warned that “conflict creates opportunities for corruption and subverts governments’ efforts to stop it” when unveiling its 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on January 31, scoring 180 countries worldwide on perceived levels of public sector corruption from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) with the average 43.…

Biomass is under threat as the leading source of renewable energy in the European Union (EU) under controversial proposals to cap use of primary woody biomass and end subsidies by the end of 2026. Bioenergy Europe figures (1) show that 69.6% of biomass energy feedstock used in Europe comes from woody biomass, which are forestry and wood industry residues with the remaining feedstock sourced 18.3% from agricultural biomass and 12.1% biowaste.…

US and Ireland-based autonomous vehicle (AV) technology supplier Aptiv is one of many AV initiatives using the Asian city state of Singapore as a testbed for such vehicles, related sensors and relevant electronic components. The country’s proactivity on AVs has led to four generations of autonomous vehicles being approved for eventual use by Singapore transport authorities, which include models from Audi and BMW.…

Britain’s Brexit from the European Union (EU), in full from December 31, 2020, may have freed the UK government from having to follow EU tobacco legislation, except for Northern Ireland, which remains within the EU’s single market for goods, but the tobacco sector is struggling to see benefits.…

Factory digitisation, including the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, has increased big data availability by “at least two orders of magnitude from what was available a couple of decades ago,” said UK-based AI-driven predictive maintenance software provider Senseye chief technology officer and co-founder Robert Russell.…

The European Union (EU) is edging towards a digital Euro, one of several jurisdictions worldwide developing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), but what anti-money laundering controls would need to be built into the system and how can this be balanced with data protection and privacy considerations?…

The UK’s National Fraud Initiative (NFI) has helped prevent, detect or recover some GBP442.6 million (USD548.58 million) fraud and error through data matching UK-wide in the period April 5, 2020, to March 31, 2022, according to the latest report (1). This brings the total fraud and error losses saved since its creation in 1996 to GBP2.4 billion (USD2.97 billion).…

The European Union’s (EU) new ‘Women on Boards’ directive (1) is designed to force change in the EU’s director cohort by requiring that the ‘under-represented sex’ (which could be male on rare female-dominated boards) make up 40% of non-executive directors or 33% of all major company directors.…

The UK’s law enforcement and prosecuting authorities have been striving to mitigate the loss of automatic collaborative relationships with European Union (EU) member states, following Brexit. Keith Nuthall reports

A key priority of the talks forging the 2020 EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), (1) which underpinned Britain’s full Brexit form the EU on January 1, 2021, was salvaging the close relationship between UK and EU police and prosecutors.…