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Digital icebergs and the future of asset finance Written by Adam Kobeissi, CGI Published: 04 May 2021 The asset finance industry has undergone some of the most fundamental changes in its history over the past year and new risks are now emerging as finance providers focus on growth in a post-pandemic era, as Adam Kobeissi, innovation director in CGI UK’s Financial Services Practice, explains. When COVID-19 emerged and global business structures were disrupted, it led to an unprecedented adoption of digital processes to maintain customer contact and keep businesses moving. In...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Image used on the cover of the newly edited book, "The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century. " The sketch, "1869 National Colored Convention in Washington, DC, " is... view more  Credit: Courtesy of the personal Jim Casey Collection. It has been more than 50 years since a full-length book was written about the Colored Conventions Movement -- the 19th century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. In 1969, Howard Holman Bell, a scholar of African American history, published "The Negro Convention Movement: 1830-1861," his disser...

Date Time FSU’s virtual ‘Art in STEM’ exhibition brings beauty of science to a worldwide audience Timothy Hua, “Brain Organoid in a Test Tube,” depicts a human brain model that will improve understanding of and treatment for a type of pediatric cancer, captured by microscope, 2019. Florida State University’s Graduate Women in STEM organization will present the seventh annual “Art in STEM” exhibit April 9, again using a virtual platform to invite viewers from across Florida, the U.S., and the world to experience the intersection of art and science, technology, engineering and m...

Byte Into IT: Understanding The Environmental Impacts Of Blockchain It’s easy to think that cryptocurrencies have minimal impact on the environment as they don’t require printing of anything physical. However, Professor Yang Xiang joins the Byte Into IT crew to explain the technologies and processes, like blockchain, can use an extraordinary amount of computer power, and therefore electricity. According to the Dean of Swinburne’s Digital Research and Innovation Capability, research that shows that “one Bitcoin transaction would generate the carbon dioxide equivalent to 707,000 swipes...

Monday 15th March / presented by Jeff Bullen Non-fungible tokens (NFT) and blockchain pose an untold threat to the environment. Miners of blockchain tend to set up in places with cheap energy, which generally translates to carbon pollution – and it requires an enormous amount of energy. Popular bitcoin Ethereum’s annual energy use is roughly on par with all of Ireland's annual energy use. Without regulation, skyrocketing bitcoin prices could lock the world into years of increased fossil fuel mining, large emissions and resource scarcity. Dean of Swinburne...