The transformation replaces legacy systems with cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Teams, strengthening long-term compliance while improving operational efficiency and scalability across the organisation.

With more than 4,000 employees worldwide, SIX delivers critical financial market infrastructure services spanning trading, securities services, financial information and payments.

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Organisations operating in highly regulated environments continue to face increasing pressure to modernise communications infrastructures while also meeting evolving regulatory obligations. Recent market data highlights the scale of this challenge, with 77 % of executives reporting that regulatory burden has negatively impacted growth-driving activities while 85 % say compliance requirements have increased in complexity over the past three years( p14).

Staying in Switzerland, deeptech start-up Bubble Robotics has announced a US $ 5 million pre-seed round to deploy persistent autonomous systems that transform offshore operations and ocean monitoring.

While satellites have revolutionised understanding of space and the planet’ s surface, the underwater world remains comparatively opaque, expensive to monitor and operationally dangerous.

Bubble’ s mission is straightforward but transformative – replace vessel-based offshore operations with intelligent robotic systems capable of living and working at sea continuously, without human crews( p24).

Yeelen Knegtering, Chief AI Officer, Doxis, talks titles in making the case for CIOs as CAIOs with analysts increasingly recognizing AI is a technology genuinely capable of fundamentally transforming how organizations operate( p35).

As organisations accelerate their adoption of AI, their digital environments are becoming more expansive and complex. The use of hybrid multi-cloud models in the UK is expected to increase significantly over the next three years, further distributing data and workloads across platforms and borders. This shift is forcing organisations to reassess how effectively they protect sensitive information and how they maintain control while navigating an increasingly complex landscape of cross-border regulation, says Natalie Denyer, VP for Client Engineering, IBM( p18)

Just a sample, then, of what’ s inside – enjoy the read.

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