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Letter Connor Axiotes is right to draw attention to the seriousness of frontier AI and its potential impact on the risk of cyber attacks (‘Humanity is no longer in control of its most awesome creation since the atom bomb’). But his assertion about the Bank of England’s cyber defences being unsophisticated is totally wrong, unfounded…
Time: 10am to 1pm | Location: Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AH and MS teams Minutes Item 1 – Introduction The Chair opened the meeting, setting out the aim of the meeting: to agree which animals should be recommended to be included on a shortlist which the public would be asked to choose…
Rabobank’s Senior Macro Strategist Stefan Koopman notes UK headline CPI fell to 2.6% in June, below the MPC’s forecast, with broad-based downside surprises and easing domestic pressures. However, Koopman argues that renewed energy price increases and recurring shocks mean inflation is likely to move back above 3%, implying that 3% may effectively replace 2% as…
Whether driven by retirements or re-configuration, the insurance industry is scrambling for tech talent. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. Caught between a wave of retirements and a weak talent pipeline short on tech-savvy candidates, the insurance industry faces a talent shortage that could affect its ability to address cyber…