January 20, 2015 - Securities compliance experts from Wolters Kluwer Financial Services have published commentary outlining key regulatory trends expected to impact U.S. securities firms in 2015. The outlook considers the regulatory landscape at a time four and a half years since the Dodd-Frank Act was passed into law. Given the context that only about half of the rules have been finalized and we are less than half way to implementation, trends indicate regulation will continue to increase over the coming year and in the near future.

January 19, 2015 - An upturn in business volumes and increase in compliance demands is encouraging UK financial firms to raise IT budgets in a bid to reach new customers and shake off competition from new market entrants, according to the latest quarterly survey from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and PwC.

January 16, 2015 - The US and UK are to wage a series of cyber 'war games' against each other to test the resilience of the two country's defences against online criminals, beginning with a mock exercise directed at the banking and finance sector.

January 16, 2015 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted two new sets of rules that will require security-based swap data repositories (SDRs) to register with the SEC and prescribe reporting and public dissemination requirements for security-based swap transaction data.

January 13, 2015 - President Barack Obama has outlined plans to require companies that suffer data breaches to alert affected customers within 30 days.

January 13, 2015 - The use of mobile phones for making in-store payments is set to grow by 1000% during 2015, marking a mass-market tipping point for NFC-enabled transactions, forecasts Deloitte.

January 12, 2015 - Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE:HPY), one of the nation's largest payment processors, today announced it is the first company to offer a comprehensive warranty that protects businesses from payment card breach losses in the event of a breach.