May 11, 2012 - JP Morgan Chase & Co lost a minimum of $2 billion during a failed hedging strategy, it has emerged. Jamie Dimon, chief executive of the major US bank - which holds global assets of $2.3 trillion - revealed the company has suffered eight-figure losses in its synthetic credit portfolio in the last few months.

March 27, 2012 - Cybercrime is a growing threat to financial services firms and is now the second most common type of economic crime the industry faces, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.

February 28, 2012 - FinArch, international market leader in integrated risk and finance solutions for the financial services industry, announced that Basel III has been added to its Finance, Risk and Performance Measurement Platform Financial Studio. Financial Studio Basel III is a unique, comprehensive and flexible end-to-end solution that meets all Basel III regulatory requirements, and, at the same time, banks’ strategic business needs.

May 1, 2012 - Several major banks across the US have faced criticism during their Federal Reserve stress tests, it has been said. Sources with knowledge of the situation have told Bloomberg that some of the 19 largest financiers that underwent examinations by the Fed were questioned about the way in which they had planned their dividends and calculated losses.

March 12, 2012 - Financial industry association Isitc says that nearly two thirds of its members plan to increase their information technology spending over the next two years as regulatory compliance continues to dominate the agenda.

February 27, 2012 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today released an alert to help firms prevent and detect unauthorized trading in brokerage and advisory accounts.The Risk Alert issued by the agency's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) notes that although broker-dealers and investment advisers are subject to different regulatory requirements, both face similar risks of financial and reputational losses arising from unauthorized trading.

April 24, 2012 - Risk management is set to play a crucial role in the functioning of European hedge funds, according to a survey conducted by Omgeo and Hedge Funds Review. Almost all of the hedge funds surveyed (94%) believe that demonstrating robust risk management capabilities will be of critical (52%) or moderate (42%) importance to the fund-wide efforts to raise assets in 2012.

March 2, 2012 - "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" was the caption on a famous cartoon by Peter Steiner published in The New Yorker in 1993. It encapsulated a belief that persists to this day — that you can hide your true identity on the Internet. However, it is increasingly harder for anyone to hide their identity. We all give up data about ourselves of varying degrees of sensitivity in return for using "free" services.

February 21, 2011 - Globally, Celent expects firms to spend in excess of $35 billion in 2012 on core risk management and risk-related regulatory compliance. These constitute a significant part of total technology spending across banking, insurance, securities, and investment management sectors in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, growing to $50.6 billion in 2015.

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.

February 29, 2012 - RiskAdvisory, a division of business analytics leader SAS, today announced it is strengthening its market-leading Dodd-Frank regulatory response with the addition of Patrick Woody as Senior Strategist for Regulatory Risk Compliance. Woody comes to commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) solutions provider RiskAdvisory from parent company SAS, where he assisted energy and utilities companies with risk management and regulatory issues.

January 31, 2012 - The number of IT professionals seeking the CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) certification continues to rise rapidly. More than 16,000 professionals have earned the CRISC designation since the certification was introduced just over 18 months ago.