The Financial Services industry is at an innovations crossroads where Big Data, digital disruption and technology have splintered the dominant design of how products are delivered and how current processes and people function. Risks abound such as ‘What types of innovation will dominate',...

This article aims to present a critical view on the use of personal data in the current scenario of hyper-connectivity, bringing to the fore, as an alternative, the possibility of self-managing data, based on a concrete project. We will first present a panorama of privacy in the twenty-first...

“Big Data is the oil of the new economy” is the most famous citation during the three last years. It has even been adopted by the World Economic Forum in 2011. In fact, Big Data is like crude! It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot be used. It must be broken down, analyzed for it to have...

This study explores the most recent episode in the evolution of audit technology, namely the incorporation of Big Data and Data Analytics (BDA) into audit firm approaches. Drawing on twenty-two interviews with individuals with significant experience in developing, implementing or assessing the...