AMF issues RFI for central securities data repository
May 16, 2013 - The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the regulatory and oversight body for Québec's financial sector, has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for potential suppliers to tender for the creation of a new Market Analysis Platform (MAP).
Bank of England expresses concern over Bloomberg data monitoring
May 15, 2013 - The Bank of England has commented on the data snooping activities of the financial news agency Bloomberg, calling them "reprehensible".
Big Data Could Have a Transformational Influence on the 21st Century Global Financial System, According to BNY Mellon
May 9, 2013 - New analytical approaches combined with the arrival of torrents of big data have the potential to shape a healthier and more prosperous future for the information-intensive global financial system, according to a white paper from BNY Mellon.
Panopticon Selected for CRN Big Data 100
April 26, 2013 - Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data discovery and analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced it has been included in the UBM Tech Channel's CRN 2013 Big Data 100 list.
Data management key to market surveillance - Iosco
April 22, 2013 - The technology-driven revolution in securities markets in recent years requires regulators to overhaul their surveillance operations with a focus on the micro-management of trade data, says a report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco).
‘Rich list’ data leak shows information more valuable than gold
April 8, 2013 - Commenting on reports in the New York Times and Guardian newspapers on the leaking of wealth and tax arrangements data on 120,000 companies - plus 130,000 high net worth individuals and their financial agents – Varonis Systems says that this highlights the need for organisations to know who is accessing their data internally. And in particular, who has access to what data - and how it is being handled - especially unstructured data such as spreadsheets and documents in email, in order to protect the privacy of individuals.
Software AG Invests in a Mobile Solutions Start-up
March 27, 2013 - Software AG has made an investment in metaquark, a Berlin-based mobile solutions company. This investment, which includes a buy-out option, secures Software AG's access to metaquark's innovative mobile solutions capabilities. The companies have already integrated their mobile technologies and will continue to jointly develop and enhance Software AG's webMethods Mobile Suite.
ISACA Issues Governance and Assurance Guidance for Big Data
March 13, 2013 - Big data can save big money. A recent McKinsey report found that value gained from data in the US health care sector alone could be more than US $300 billion every year. But traditional tools aren't enough to manage these extremely large amounts of fast-changing information.
