April 16, 2013 - American supermarket chain Schnucks says that around 2.4 million cards may have been compromised by a data breach which saw crooks install malware on its systems.
April 16, 2013 - Fintech consultancy Capco has teamed up with EyeLock in a bid to sell the latter's iris-based identity authentication technology to the financial services industry.
April 11, 2013 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Jennifer Marietta-Westberg has been named Deputy Director of its Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation (RSFI).
April 10, 2013 - Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the launch of Accelus Compliance Manager for Insurance, a solution that enables U.S.-based insurance organizations to manage the impact of regulatory change on their business and mitigate the increasing amount of compliance risk to which they are exposed.
April 9, 2013 - Banking stress tests have made the US financial system more resistant to potential future shocks.
April 8, 2013 - Commenting on reports in the New York Times and Guardian newspapers on the leaking of wealth and tax arrangements data on 120,000 companies - plus 130,000 high net worth individuals and their financial agents – Varonis Systems says that this highlights the need for organisations to know who is accessing their data internally. And in particular, who has access to what data - and how it is being handled - especially unstructured data such as spreadsheets and documents in email, in order to protect the privacy of individuals.
April 8, 2013 - Financial Tracking Technologies, LLC, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office recently allowed two of its pending U.S. Patent Applications, which will issue as patents shortly.
April 5, 2013 - The majority of financiers involved in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) failed to meet the deadline of January to begin implementing new capital rules.
