January 15, 2014 - New rules governing trading and financial markets in Europe have been agreed by the European Commission (EC), Parliament (EP) and the bloc's national Council of Ministers this week. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II stipulations, which have the strength of a Regulation for some aspects in their updated form, creating the alternate MiFIR moniker, seeks to transform the securities market in Europe, as its predecessor did.

December 13, 2013 - The International Organization of Securities Commissions today published its final report on Regulatory Issues Raised by Changes in Market Structure, which makes four recommendations that seek to promote market liquidity and efficiency, price transparency, and investors´ execution quality in a fragmented environment.

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.

January 10, 2014 - Singapore issued today its inaugural national risk assessment (NRA) report on money laundering and terrorist financing risks in the country.

December 12, 2013 - Wolters Kluwer Financial Services' experts across EMEA analyse 2013 and look forward to the upcoming year's challenges and opportunities.

November 26, 2013 - Aon Global Risk Consulting, the risk management consulting arm of Aon plc (NYSE: AON), and Optial (UK) Limited have collaborated to create the first truly integrated Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) system for the commercial insurance and reinsurance sector.

January 9, 2014 - The compliance technology and outsourcing vendor Global Reporting Company (GRC), which is jointly owned by the GMEX exchange trading technology provider and CoDiese advisory firm, is joining the REGIS-TR trade repository.

December 11, 2013 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) Global Business Services today announced a new financial services framework to help banks tackle regulation and keep their key business services available. This framework comes in two parts:

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.

December 17, 2013 - The reform of Britain's baking industry cleared one of the final barriers to implementation as MPs gave their approval of the measures, which are aimed at tackling structural and cultural issues within the industry.

December 6, 2013 - The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday released guidance reminding financial institutions it supervises to exercise appropriate risk management and oversight when using service providers.

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.