December 13, 2012 - Markets in 2013 are likely to be heavily affected by government policies and politics, according to the Global Market Outlook from BNY Mellon Investment Management. Policy makers will be faced with the challenge of maintaining stability, while attempting to stimulate economic recovery, the report said.

October 18, 2012 - Financial institutions need to take full control of their vast number of spreadsheets and databases if they want to be fit for the new era of post-crisis risk management, warns leading data management specialist ClusterSeven. If they are not prepared, firms face a growing threat of regulatory censure over weak data management systems.

July 11, 2012 - US financial services regulators have warned banks that they need to put in more robust controls if they plan to use third party cloud services.

December 6, 2012 - Wolters Kluwer Financial Services' Experts Say Proactive Efforts Around Compliance, Risk, Finance and Audit Critical to Organizations' Success in 2013.

September 28, 2012 - Half of senior risk executives interviewed at leading banks believe that capturing and processing risk information across their enterprises is currently inadequate.

July 11, 2012 - US financial services regulators have warned banks that they need to put in more robust controls if they plan to use third party cloud services.

November 5, 2012 - Compliance and risk regulations will be the main drivers of technology spending in 2013, says Ovum in its assessment of the '2013 Trends to Watch in Financial Markets Technology'.

September 21, 2012 - Knight Capital Group is looking for a new chief technology officer and operational and technology risk manager in a management shake-up at the firm which sustained $440 million in losses following a rogue trading software update.

July 11, 2012 - Internal audit practitioners globally report that more visible and vocal support for the internal audit function is needed from senior management within their organizations as the changing demands of today's regulatory and risk environment are putting them under increasing pressure to do more with less, according to a new survey by Thomson Reuters.

October 24, 2012 - Investit recently reported that regulatory change programmes would be among the top priorities for 85% of investment managers in 2013. New research published by Investit this week, shows that for 75% of firms the emerging and still unclear regulations are placing strain on the operational risk function.

July 23, 2012 - A recent survey by EuroFinance, the global specialists in treasury research and events, has revealed that over a third of finance professionals have witnessed serious financial wrongdoing in organisations they have worked in. Respondents who worked in banks or financial institutions were more likely to have witnessed this type of activity (41%).

July 10, 2012 - The UK's House of Lords has urged the European Commission to call a halt to proposed changes to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), labelling the reforms as "ill-thought out" and potentially damaging to the City of London.