December 5, 2013 - Corporate treasurers cite security challenges and bring-your-own-device business policies as the key obstacles to wider uptake of mobile banking platforms for treasury activities.

December 5, 2013 - The Clearing House (TCH) today issued a working paper entitled U.S. Payment System: Recommendations for Safe Evolution and Future Improvements that offers recommendations on how best to evolve the existing payments system.

December 4, 2013 - A quarter of Brits would seriously consider switching their bank if it suffered a major technology failure, such as a problem with ATMs, according to a survey from Fujitsu published just two days after the RBS meltdown.

December 4, 2013 - Misys, the global leader in financial services software, has won more accolades to emphasise its leading position in enterprise risk management. The company has been awarded first place in eight of the categories in this year's Risk Magazine Technology Rankings.

December 4, 2013 - According to a recent Thomson Reuters poll, consolidating and gathering tax-related data requires the most effort during the compliance process (with 44 percent of respondents indicating as such). Other areas of focus for tax departments include:

December 4, 2013 - Companies seeking to improve information security without incurring significant expense are increasingly turning to the cloud for security as a service (SecaaS), which promises low costs and high flexibility. But when cloud security is already a concern, outsourcing security services themselves to the cloud poses a significant set of risks to address. A new free, downloadable white paper from global IT association ISACA evaluates the impact of SecaaS on an enterprise and outlines 10 key questions to ask—and answer—before deploying it.

December 3, 2013 - Cyber Monday saw millions of Americans turning to smartphones to access the bargains and deals provided by retailers.