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Alexon Bell, Global Head of AML and Compliance at Quantexa

Technology is both a blessing and a curse for officials fighting against human trafficking.

With the rise of social media and a world growing smaller through communication platforms, alongside the accessibility of online advertisements and encrypted messaging apps, traffickers have a host of technologies at their fingertips to help entrap victims, advertise their services and cover up the trafficker’s own illegal activity.

However, new technologies are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are playing a key role in eliminating human trafficking. Some are used to discoverand rescue victims, others to identify networks of perpetrators. Many of these advancements are beginning to empower governments to source the root of trafficking rings and stop the activity at its core. In turn, this puts a new and heavier responsibility onto banks and corporates to innovate and improve their systems to themselves spot any nefarious activity and feed this back into the global effort against trafficking.

Spotting victims

At the heart of each case of human trafficking is a victim, butknowing the identity of this victim is difficult. Hundreds of images of abused children are shared online every day – even if all of these are flagged, many will be duplicates of cases that have already been actioned. Understanding whether an image is a duplicate or a new photo – which would require a new response from law enforcement – is difficult as such images are hard to track.

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Women Count 2018 found that in the last three years there has been no progress on gender diversity in senior roles in the FTSE 350 – and by some measures, it is going backwards.

Women Count is the third annual report by The Pipeline, that tracks and analyses the number of women on Executive Committees of FTSE 350 companies. The report found that:

The ratio of women on Executive Committees of FTSE 350 companies has stayed the same at only 16% since the first report three years ago.
95% of all P&L roles on Executive Committees are held by men and just 5% by women, a decrease on last year – most women instead perform ‘functional’ roles such as HR, marketing, legal or compliance.
The percentage of women executives on main boards has flatlined at 8% between 2017 and 2018. This means 92% are still held by men.

Representation on Executive Committees, unlike representation on Boards, is the best measure of gender equality in the FTSE 350 because executives have power in the running of a company.

Banks continue to have much to do if they really want to improve their gender pay gap, increase women in senior roles and better reflect their customer base. With 25% representation of women on their Executive Committees, this means that men make up 75% of operating committees. Even worse on the main Board, there is 83% representation of men across Executive Director roles. Increasing the number of women in senior…

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“Exit Factory is the entry to a new approach.”

We live in a time of unprecedented technological progress. Fresh business concepts emanate from new technologies and every day we observe their resulting projects. An astonishing $27 billion is invested each week in more than 350 start-up funding rounds.

As a consequence, investors face ever increasing challenges in identifying projects with the highest potential.

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Uncertainty and Opportunity as Small and Medium- Sized Enterprises Face Banking Change

Over 220,000 small businesses set to form part of the biggest banking shake up in years

Thousands of small businesses across the UK who are the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) customers, are being incentivised to change their banking facilities.

This is set to cause confusion for many small businesses without the time or resources to assess what options are now available in the wider market, according to Duff & Phelps, the global advisor that protects, restores and maximises value for clients.

RBS contacted over 220,000 small business customers with turnover under £25m to inform them of this new opportunity which has come as a result of the £45 billion taxpayer-funded bailout for RBS at the height of the financial crash in 2008. The bank is being forced to provide £350 million for rivals to offer incentives to its customers to switch, as well as £425 million for a ‘capability and innovation fund’ to help other banks and finance firms expand their services to the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) sector.

The so-called ‘alternative remedies package’ stems from the bailout that saved RBS from collapse. Since this qualified as State Aid under European Commission rules, the bank had to agree to reduce its size and market share. It was ordered to sell five parts of the business and while a home was found for four, the challenge arose when it came to its 220,000 SME customers. The original plan – to place all the customers into a newly reformed…

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