February 8, 2013 - The increasing prevalence of corporate governance, more stringent regulatory processes post-crash and outdated structures are all preventing boards at all types of organisations from adequately engaging in and setting appropriate risk management cultures within their firms, claims a new Thomson Reuters survey.
February 7, 2013 - Gamification start-up True Office has formed a product development and distribution partnership with Thomson Reuters which will see the pair create regulatory and compliance training applications for the financial services world.
February 7, 2013 - Wolters Kluwer Financial Services announced today that it has won the 2013 European CEO Risk & Compliance Award for "Best Compliance Management Provider." The annual awards, determined by the publication's 50,000-strong readership as well as a panel of expert judges, recognize excellence in the practice of financial risk and compliance.
February 6, 2013 - The US Federal Reserve Bank has confirmed that an internal database of US bank contacts was hacked just days after the Anonymous collective leaked the names, addresses and other personal information of around 4,000 bank executives.
February 5, 2013 - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that it has again been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention.* Gartner positions vendors in the Leaders quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.
February 4, 2013 - IT spending will grow by 3.4 percent at global retail banks reaching US$118.6bn in 2013. The Ovum Business Trends report also finds that European banks are lagging behind their North American and Asia-Pacific counterparts, with just 1.8 percent growth expected, compared to 3.3 percent and 5.1 percent, respectively.
February 1, 2013 - It is now exactly one year to go until banks, businesses and every other organisation across Europe has to migrate to the single euro payments area (SEPA) harmonised payment standards, yet only 30% of credit transfers and 2% of direct debits are currently SEPA-compliant, says a new survey from Experian.
February 1, 2013 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did not effectively implement appropriate information security controls in the initial components of the Enhanced Secured Network (ESN) project.
