financial crisis

Whether the world has emerged or not from crisis, Asia continues to lead the recovery, and there will be a tricky transition as the global economy rebalances.

One of the online scams that MessageLabs Intelligence took a look at recently was how the advertised price per 100 mg of the medication used to treat male impotence and commonly exploited in spam messages has changed over the past year and how the spammers may have been affected by last year’s financial crisis.

The Singapore Government will extend the financing schemes under the Special Risk-Sharing Initiative (SRI) and the enhancements to existing financing schemes, which were introduced during the economic downturn, for another year.

The financial crisis has changed the effects of the risks underlying fraud.  This is according to Kroll's Annual Global Fraud Report.

The global financial crisis has prompted a re-evaluation of risk management. But while companies admit that major change is needed, many are unwilling, or unable, to make the necessary enhancements.

After years of public sector agencies striving to drive out inefficiency and waste, we are now approaching the point where further savings can be achieved only at the cost of reducing service delivery (many would argue that we have already reached that point). And yet, as I hope to show, there is an alternative.

Gartner adjusted its previous 2009 spending forecast downward this week to a decline of 6%, rather than the 3.8%the research firm estimated in March.

According to a recent Gartner survey, the financial crisis is causing companies to postpone, but not cancel, IT projects.