April 12, 2012 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged that Goldman, Sachs & Co. lacked adequate policies and procedures to address the risk that during weekly "huddles," the firm's analysts could share material, nonpublic information about upcoming research changes.

April 4 2012 - The Federal Reserve and US Congress urgently need to plug a public policy vacuum if the national payment infrastructure is to keep up with changes in the digital economy, according to a former senior Fed executive.

March 14, 2012 - INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the results of an independent study and whitepaper by financial industry think-tank, JWG. The research is focused on the impact of anticipated regulation of the financial services industry on the ICT infrastructure requirements of banking and insurance firms across Europe.

April 10, 2012 - ISACA today released COBIT 5, the only business framework for the governance and management of enterprise IT. The new version of COBIT promotes seamless continuity between an enterprise’s IT department and its overall business goals, and represents a major evolution of the globally accepted framework in use at enterprises worldwide for more than 15 years.

March 29, 2012 - European lawmakers have approved tough new rules governing trading in the over-the-counter derivatives market.

March 7, 2012 - The European Commission is promising to shake up cross-border securities settlement in the EU by cutting settlement timeframes and establishing a common regulatory framework for the region's 30+ central securities depositories.

April 5, 2012 - Leading banks across Europe would have posted a huge shortfall on their minimum capital requirements had the upcoming Basel III rules been in force last year. New data published by the European Central Bank (ECB) has shown that continental financiers were around €242 billion ($316 billion) below the requirement that will be imposed in regulatory changes as of January 2013.

March 29, 2012 - The GAO found taht HUD has made progress in implementing prior GAO recommendations on modernizing its IT environment; however more actions are needed. In 2009, GAO reported that HUD lacked key IT management controls; which are essential to achieving successful outcomes.

March 2, 2012 - National Australia Bank is formulating a set of standard service level agreements that may be used by companies worldwide for securing data in public and private cloud applications.

April 4, 2012 - The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published its second progress report on the Basel III capital adequacy implementation, ahead of the first deadline starting on 1 January 2013. The progress report tracks the implementation of Basel II, Basel 2.5 and Basel III by Committee member countries. It outlines the progress of individual member countries in transforming the Committee's regulatory standards into national law or regulation according to the internationally agreed timeframes.

March 19, 2012 - A major UK bank has issued a formal apology to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) body after it emerged it had broken the regulator's rules.

February 24, 2012 - The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has given national securities watchdogs two months to declare their plans for enforcing new rules on scrutinising high frequency trading activities.