November 15, 2013 - Mobile banking is becoming an increasingly prominent element of the way people manage their finances.

November 15, 2013 - European Union politicians have broken the deadlock over the Omnibus II directive that will amend the Solvency II capital adequacy rules for the insurance sector. The deal reached this week will enable the risk-based capital regime, which mirrors the Basel III capital rules for the banking sector, to finally start in 2016.

November 15, 2013 - The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Discussion Paper (DP) setting out its initial views on the implementation measures it will develop for the new Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), covering the surveillance of European financial markets. It has invited capital market participants to respond by 27 January 2014.

November 14, 2013 - The Belgian and Dutch Data Protection Authorities are to conduct an investigation into security at Swift following allegations that data transmitted over the interbank network was spied on by the US National Security Authority.

November 14, 2013 - Only 4 percent of IT professionals say their enterprises are very prepared to ensure effective governance and privacy of Big Data, according to a global survey conducted by professional association ISACA. Yet information is currency, and enterprises must not only protect and manage it, but also use it to drive business value.

November 13, 2013 - Spanish bank BBVA is releasing its raw transaction datasets to developers as part of an international competition to create new services, applications and insight into consumer demands.

November 13, 2013 - Project First, the European Union-backed research effort to find a way of extracting and analysing financial services-related sentiment from social media networks, has concluded with the launch of a prototype market surveillance system.