June 17, 2014 - A Russian-spawned mobile Trojan which combines elements of both financial malware and ransomware is now attacking English language banking apps.

May 29, 2014 - Restoration Partners, the boutique technology merchant bank that transforms entrepreneurial technology in wealth, is pleased to announce that its client, Risk IDS, a UK-based IP company that develops software which helps banks and payment institutions manage electronic payment channel risk, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Vasco Data Security International ("Vasco").

April 14, 2014 - Volante Technologies, a global leader in the provision of innovative financial data integration, today announced that it has enhanced Volante Designer version 5.0 to support the Hadoop® framework.

June 4, 2014 - Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) has selected Asset Control's AC Plus as its data management platform to achieve centralised and efficient market data management for end of day valuations and market risk calculations.

May 14, 2014 - Dimension Data, the US$6 billion global ICT solutions and services provider, today announced the availability of Cloud Backup across its global Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) locations.

April 8, 2014 - Actian Corporation ("Actian") continues to build and enhance its commitment to making Big Data analytics accessible for a broad range of progressive Japanese companies. Through an agreement with Insight Technology to distribute the Actian Analytics Platform throughout Japan, Actian delivers the power of game-changing Big Data analytics with best-in-class price-performance within this strategic growth market.

June 3, 2014 - Actian Corporation ("Actian") today announced that the Actian Analytics PlatformTM, the first end-to-end analytics platform built to run 100 percent natively in Hadoop, will deliver the highest performing, industrial grade, fully compliant SQL in Hadoop offering.

May 12, 2014 - Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that global financial services firm UBS has selected the company to build a next generation enterprise data center network infrastructure.

April 4, 2014 - The complexity of regulatory reforms in both Europe and the US places added pressure on asset management firms, forming part of the recent shift in strategy. This year, the buy side gathered at TSAM Europe 2014 to discuss how asset managers can successfully gain control of the ongoing challenge of regulatory compliance, alongside the management of vast volumes of data and coping with the cost of improving operating models.

May 30, 2014 - Actian Corporation ("Actian") today announced the premiere of a new web series Coffee@Actian with Ray, where technology thought leader and analyst, R "Ray" Wang of Constellation Research, Inc., partners with Actian to spark big data action through conversations with the industry's most prominent change agents and luminaries.

May 8, 2014 - Check Point has issued its 2014 Security Report, its second annual report uncovering the major security events that occurred and impacted organisations across the world in 2013. Of 150 major financial organisations worldwide, 88% had a data loss incident in 2013, up from 61% in 2012. But despite the numerous high-profile credit card breaches that took place in 2013, Check Point's research found that PCI data loss events in financial organisations slightly reduced to 33%, compared with 36% in 2012.

April 2, 2014 - ReD, a leading provider of fraud prevention and payment services, has announced the launch of a new service designed to make global fraud intelligence and analytics available to all online merchants.