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NEW fraud detection solutions based on a “centralised management platform across all lines of business” are being made more feasible by new financial industry customer authentication standards, research indicates. These allow a consortia of organisations’ data (or data from previously siloed wings of one major institution) to be pooled, allowing bulk analysis of big data, helping update algorithms, encouraging anti-fraud system vendors to offer cross-functional services as clients seek to consolidate contracts and end silo-based approaches to counter-fraud activities, industry insiders predict.…

Bangladesh has ordered thousands of clothing factories to continue production throughout a 10-day countrywide lockdown in force since Thursday (March 26) aimed at slowing the spread of new coronavirus that causes Covid-19. In a letter to the president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) issued on March 27, the state-run Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) – part of the ministry of labour and employment -.…

INTRODUCTION – SERIES

A series of reports from WTiN is exploring the need for the textile and clothing sector to protect itself against attacks from cybercriminals as it invests in new transformative Industry 4.0 technologies – extended reality, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.…

Joe O’Regan is a busy man, and busier than ever because of Covid-19, the novel coronavirus that has upended global life on an unprecedented scale.

“These past few weeks have been a complete game changer for all of us,” says O’Regan, FCCA, the director of Harvard University’s Global Support Services (GSS), a relatively new organisation within the university that supports students, faculty, and staff overseas — from responding to overseas emergencies to repatriating university affiliates in times of crisis.…

TECHNOLOGY developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) is helping bring some stability to today’s chaotic oil market, by delivering satellite images of storage depots that tell traders exactly how much oil is currently in storage worldwide. These photographs analysed by partner companies such as London-based digital oil analytics company OilX and natural resources research company Terrabotics, also based in the UK capital, provide updated market assessments, helping traders fix a realistic price, reducing the risk of an oil supply glut.…

DIGITAL textile printers continue to seek for technological ways by which they can leverage the innate advantages their equipment has over conventional printing, and one is exploring the use of nanoparticles in finishing chemicals – delivering innovation that can sharpen the existing competitive advantage in design and sustainability enjoyed by digital printers.…

South-east Asia is not known for a tradition of eating dairy products, but actually consumers in the region’s most populous country Indonesia (population 270 million people) have been eating cheese for more than a century (partly thanks Indonesia’s historic links with the Netherlands) and the country has a thriving domestic dairy industry.…

Digital printing is still a relatively new concept to Poland’s traditional fabric finishing sector – but national pride in the country’s well-established textile sector is sparking a desire to modernise so it can maintain its competitive edge. Much of the resulting investment has been focused on local and independent textile printers located throughout the country – but a significant number of these are based in Łódz, central Poland, a key textile manufacturing hub, with the port-town of Gdynia also being home to upgraded finishing plants.…

The can making and filling sectors have become beneficiaries – at least in the short term – of consumers turning their kitchen cupboards into pandemic pantries, stockpiling canned food and other long-lasting products because they fear of food shortages because of Covid-19.…

AFRICA is commonly hailed as the world’s next big focus of economic growth, but for the civil aviation industry, this prospect will require significant investment in new intra-African routes and related airport and ATC infrastructure. It will also require governments to remove immigration barriers preventing African air travellers flying to other countries on their home continent.…