OPINION

Ireland's position is that the UK should stay in the customs union, but this is plainly not going to happen.

Striking the right balance between convenience and security isn't just about replacing older payment methods with new technologies.

Christian Ball, Head of Retail Financial Services, GFT, looks AI, PSD2 and Banking as a Platform (BaaP).

By Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington, Maria Romero, and April Koury, from Fast Future Publishing

Rohingya Muslims are being raped, dispossessed, killed in Myanmar. One cannot hear their stories without red rage.

Ratko Mladić, the Serb commander who presided over the murder of more than 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica in Bosnia, will die in jail.

Policymakers must stop pretending they can fix broken markets with more and more regulation.

Professor Anasse Bari of New York University, formerly with the World Bank Group, is a prominent figure in the realm of predictive analytics.

Dean Withey is CEO of ubisend.

Frans Labuschagne is UK & Ireland country manager at Entersekt.

Despite being called out for 'relentless embezzlement and extortion', Equatorial Guinea's vice president walked away from a French court with a suspended jail sentence.

Stephanie Alys, co-founder of sex toy firm MysteryVibe, thinks sex education in UK schools must include a frank discussion about sex toys.

Growing number of organisations are realising that they can design their buildings as incubators of creativity and stimulation.

Zimbabweans have been called cowards for not standing up to Mugabe. This would be unfair. Many people have paid the price of opposition.

Vishal Marria is CEO of Quantexa.

The bakery giant's advent calendar may have been criticised, but the Gospel of John in particular is full of references to Christ as a foodstuff.

Robert Mugabe is an intellectual and liberationist, but he is also a self-made villain.

In Iraq's Kurdistan, apartments had pancaked, concrete floors collapsed and spilled into the street, giant rocks tumbled from mountainsides damaging cars and buildings.

Whereas once the West was responsible for everything good in the world, today it is the source of everything that is bad.

Igor Barinov is co-founder and product manager of Oracles Network.

The UK has three realistic options: join the European Free Trade Association; postpone Brexit to 31 December 2020; or walk away from talks now.

Nathan Shedroff is Executive Director at Seed Vault Ltd

Dr. Carsten Stöcker is founder of Spherity GmbH, and Prof. Gideon Samid, PhD, serves as the Chief Technology Officer for BitMint.

Bigger than Bitcoin & more valuable than Gold, say David Parsons, Blockchain Economist, and Antony Abell, MD of TrustMe™

The advent of Open Banking Phase 2 could be a catalyst to empower customers to seek more attractive rates for their cash deposits, says Giles Hutson, CEO Insignis Cash Solutions.

Jason Mander, Chief Research Officer at GlobalWebIndex, looks at the race between Amazon, Alibaba and Apple.

The favoured Patel was to build that big bridge and also encourage more Asians to support or join the Conservative party, which had a white image problem.

Juan Manuel Santos could achieve one of his longstanding ambitions this month, if country is cleared to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has certainly hit the mainstream with undeniable force over the last year.