Economic Crime and Public Sector Offshoring

eGov Monitor
Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, Global Research Director of Commonwealth Business Council Technologies lays out a strong case for public sector IT teams to play a proactive role in combating economic crimes that cost the UK economy an estimated £100m per day. Economic crime has come of age in a digital society where we now entrust our identity and finances on a daily basis to organisations across the world. Once considered to be a victimless nuisance and glossed over or relegated to the latter pages of the business press it has come to the fore in recent years with high-profile prosecutions and a post-7/7 focus on terrorist financing. more...