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Worldpay to boost its presence in Australasia with new offices in Melbourne and Sydney, and a domestic card payment licence in New Zealand for 2019.

New research reveals that Australian bank customers rank data security as the issue that matters to them most.

Nuance Communications claims its biometric technology has thwarted over USD $1 billion in fraud, as fraud attacks via contact centres rise sharply.

WatchGuard's Internet Security Report for Q4 2018 also finds growing use of a new sextortion phishing malware customised to individual victims.

Global security spending is set to hit USD $103.1 billion in 2019, up 9.4% from 2017, driven by industries like banking and government, says IDC.

Flashpoint's Aaron Shraberg says economic tensions between the US, China, and North Korea are influencing risk management decisions in APAC.

A breach at Gearbest has left over 1.5 million shoppers' records exposed, including payment details and national IDs, due to an unencrypted database.

The cloud-based testing environment for APIs enables banks to accelerate compliance with Open Banking and PSD2 deadlines.

As geopolitical tensions spike, APAC firms must integrate political risk into their cyber strategies, as both criminal and state-sponsored threats grow.

Soprano Design partners with Smart Communications to introduce its enterprise messaging suite to the Philippine market, branded as Smart Messaging Suite.

Spending on AI will hit close to US$36 billion with retail leading the way, followed by banking, according to IDC.

Coinhive tops Check Point's Global Threat Index for February 2019, marking its 15th month as the most disruptive malware despite its impending shutdown.

Webroot's Dan Slattery shares how cybercrime has changed in recent years - and why governments around the world are still far behind.

Nintex acquires RPA provider EnableSoft, known for Foxtrot RPA, to offer a complete process platform for businesses.

Nutanix VP Neville Vincent discusses the company's strategy for ANZ, the impact of IoT and multi-cloud, and the significance of regulations on IT security.

The bustling public cloud services and infrastructure markets in aggregate are set to undertake substantial growth this year.

Singapore is looking to implement a data portability requirement as part of the ongoing review of the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA).

AI transforming financial services with 81% of risk professionals seeing benefits, says survey by SAS and GARP.

IPaaS and hybrid integration platform (HIP) providers are gaining recognition as strategic elements of digital transformation.

There are countless trends emerging in IT, but Virtusa xLabs has identified what it believes will be the 10 most influential.