New European regs hitting business functionality - survey
February 13, 2014 - An Infiniti Research survey sponsored by TradeTech Consulting Scandinavia AB, a Virtusa, Swedish subsidiary; reveals that the numerous regulations currently being enforced in Europe's financial markets have considerable impact on business functionality.
NIST Releases Cybersecurity Framework
February 12, 2014 - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released a Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The framework provides a structure that organizations, regulators and customers can use to create, guide, assess or improve comprehensive cybersecurity programs.
Latest Release of Viewpointe’s Information Governance Platform Improves ROI
February 4, 2014 - Viewpointe®, a leading private cloud service provider to regulated industries, today announced the latest update of its information governance platform, OnPointe®. The latest enhancements help organizations leverage existing corporate content to maximize business value and recognize higher returns on investment in information governance, including defensible disposition and comprehensive eDiscovery.
Independent Research Firm Cites MetricStream as a “Leader” in GRC Platforms
January 29, 2014 - MetricStream's fast growth is recognized as "a disruptive force in the market" and the strength of the company's product offering and capabilities are highlighted by their receiving the highest score for "Current Offering" criteria.
New Gigaom Research Examines Business Impact of Big Data Analytics in Extracting Value from Human-Generated Data
January 29, 2014 - A new report from Gigaom Research suggests that exploiting the metadata surrounding an organisation's most valuable and sensitive information assets can provide businesses with a more complete understanding of their intellectual property.
Money laundering shooting up agenda but banks raise concerns over systems
January 29, 2014 - Bank boardroom focus on money laundering is at an all-time high, yet a third of executives think that their transaction monitoring systems are neither efficient nor effective, according to a survey from KPMG.
Standard Bank hit by $12.6m FCA fine for failures in AML controls
January 23, 2014 - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Standard Bank £7,640,400 for failings relating to its anti-money laundering (AML) policies and procedures over corporate customers, connected to politically exposed persons (PEPs).
Europe reaches agreement on MiFID reforms
January 15, 2014 - New rules governing trading and financial markets in Europe have been agreed by the European Commission (EC), Parliament (EP) and the bloc's national Council of Ministers this week. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II stipulations, which have the strength of a Regulation for some aspects in their updated form, creating the alternate MiFIR moniker, seeks to transform the securities market in Europe, as its predecessor did.
