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We are currently witnessing a massive shift in AI architecture: moving from Chatbots (which answer questions) to Agents (which execute tasks). On the surface, this sounds like the Holy Grail of efficiency. Why hire a human analyst when an autonomous agent can browse the web, scrape data, analyze spreadsheets, and write a report 24/7? But
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From Reactive Log Analysis to Real-Time Compliance Dashboards Powered by BigQuery & Looker Studio In most organisations, audits are still treated as an after-the-fact activity a painful, reactive exercise where teams scramble to extract logs, reconcile systems, and explain behaviour that happened months ago. This model is outdated. Slow. Risky. And incompatible with modern AI-enabled,
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Balancing Central IT Control with Agile Team Autonomy Using Google Cloud’s Folder & Project Hierarchy For most enterprises, the biggest challenge in cloud adoption is not technology. It’s governance versus agility. Central IT wants consistency, security, and control. Product and engineering teams want speed, autonomy, and freedom. The tension is real: Too much centralisation →
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How to Make “Secure by Default” the Path of Least Resistance for Developers In every organisation, security and compliance leaders talk endlessly about policies. But policies don’t protect an organisation. Behaviour does. And behaviour is shaped by incentives, friction, context, and psychology not by documents in Confluence. The truth is simple: You can write the
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Not a Technical Team A Governance & Enablement Engine for the Entire Enterprise When most organisations say they are “building a Cloud Center of Excellence,” what they really mean is: “A small team of cloud engineers who enforce best practices.” But this mindset fundamentally misunderstands what a real CCoE is and why it exists. In
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Orchestrating Liquidity, Pricing, and Order-Book Synchronization Digital asset marketplaces whether for tokenized securities, stablecoins, FX tokens, carbon credits, or fractionalised real-world assets require an infrastructure that is fast, fault-tolerant, and globally synchronized. Traditional asset exchanges rely on highly optimized message buses and low-latency networks. Digital asset platforms, however, are more complex: This is exactly where
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Every few months, I run a simple mental exercise: What happens when the AI we govern becomes capable of governing itself? We are entering a world where Large Language Models and Agentic AI systems can draft policies, implement workflows, generate compliance documentation, audit their own behaviour, and even rewrite the rules when the environment changes.
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In a Network Business Model (NBM), value is created not by a single institution, but by interactions across an ecosystem banks, merchants, fintechs, logistics partners, regulators, and customers. But networks only work when there is trust, and trust only grows when there is transparency. This is why real-time visibility is becoming a foundational requirement for
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In decentralized ecosystems, trust doesn’t come from institutions, it comes from cryptography, distributed consensus, and the integrity of nodes participating in the network. But as enterprises adopt blockchain for payments, tokenization, digital assets, and cross-border trade, one reality becomes clear: Decentralization still needs governance. Banks, fintechs, and enterprises must secure private keys, manage validator nodes,
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As organisations scale the use of AI agents, whether for customer operations, credit analysis, compliance, or software engineering, one question becomes central: How do we preserve human judgement while unlocking autonomous execution? This is the challenge of Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) agent design: creating systems where humans don’t micromanage every step, yet maintain meaningful oversight, accountability, and