June

Pakistan 's Inspector General of Police (ICP) ordered the completion of the digitalization of criminal records at all police stations to ensure the launch of its centralized biometric database by May 10, 2015.

The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) also confirmed that he had established a connection with the National Database and Registration Authority. The NADRA link will make it possible to view the details of all arrested suspects, as well as access fingerprints and other essential detail. The database 's main server will be housed at the Central Police Office, where it will also be accessible to the IGP Sindh, IG Karachi and other senior police officers.

Vietnam has become the world 's top outsourcing location for the first time in terms of costs, risks, and operational conditions, according to new research from global real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield (C&W). Vietnam has capitalised on increasing labour costs in China to take first place in the ranking, while India remains the world 's largest business process outsourcing market. Vietnam established its presence in the sector as a result of numerous government reform policies to promote the country as a key outsourcing destination. C&W predicts the service segment will expand rapidly given the average age of the country 's workforce is under 30 and one-and-a-half million people enter the labour market every year.

In the second of a three-part series on the people, process and technology impacts of Europe 's forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation, Steve Kenny looks at how the new rules will affect change organizationally. Executive awareness of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is typically based on two factors. First is a board 's quest to create value from innovation, which has driven ambitious initiatives to define and unify data strategies across divisions. Second, the GDPR obliges audit committee mandates to intersect those objectives as the shareholders ' fail-safe. While GDPR requirements have yet to be finalized, 20 years of jurisprudence dictate a direction of travel. What will likely follow affects five key areas within an organization:

Change 1: Using Customer Insights To Power Risk-Management
Change 2: Data
Change 3: Core Compliance
Change 4: Assurance
Change 5: Regulatory Intermediation