March 12, 2013 - International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published a Big Data and analytics (BDA) maturity model, providing a framework of stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for organizations to effectively advance along the successive stages of BDA competency and maturity toward data-driven decision making for this $100 billion technology and services market.

March 11, 2013 - In the context of the ongoing regulatory debate on financial benchmarks and the recent consultations by the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)/European Banking Authority (EBA), EDHEC-Risk Institute wishes to underline that transparency is both crucial to allowing users to assess the risks, relevance and suitability of indices and the most powerful tool to mitigate conflicts of interests existing across the indexing industry.

March 11, 2013 - European banks are facing a race against time to restructure their pay and bonus plans before their annual meetings, it has emerged.

March 8, 2013 - The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved new rules governing IT policies and procedures at 'key market participants', in an effort to better insulate the markets from vulnerabilities posed by systems technology issues.

March 7, 2013 - Google, Nyse Technolgies and Thomson Reuters are among 31 firms to throw their hats into the ring to build a consolidated audit trail (CAT) system to monitor and analyse US trading activity.

March 5, 2013 - Research conducted by Varonis, the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, found that half of companies have lost a device with important company data on it, causing security implications for over a fifth of organisations. Further, 57% of employees believe that BYOD puts their personal data at risk as well. Despite these concerns, the study also revealed that 86% of the workforce are obsessed with their devices.

March 5, 2013 - ISITC (The International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication), the industry trade group focused on standards in transaction processing and related communications, today announced the results from its annual member survey which polled perspectives on financial services industry progress.