January 14, 2016 - Firms supplying essential services, e.g. for energy, transport, banking and health, or digital ones, such as search engines and cloud computing, will have to take action to improve their ability to withstand cyber-attacks under new rules approved by Internal Market MEPs on Thursday.
January 12, 2016 - The ICA Advanced Certificate in Business Compliance is being offered for the first time in Spain in February 2016 in partnership with International Compliance Training (ICT) and Impact on Integrity España (IOI España). It has been specifically designed to meet the growing demand for highly skilled and qualified compliance professionals working outside financial services.
January 12, 2016 - Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has been named as the top provider of IFRS 9 and Regulatory Reporting solutions globally. That's according to the annual Chartis RiskTech100® report, a comprehensive study of the world's most significant risk and compliance technology companies. The company garnered the No. 6 spot overall of 100 ranked firms, marking the sixth consecutive year it has been rated among the top 10 firms.
January 12, 2016 - Nice Actimize, a Nice Systems (NICE) business and the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for the financial services industry, was selected by SunTrust Banks, Inc. for its Enterprise Risk Case Management (ERCM) solution to consolidate the firm's financial crime investigations processes.
January 13, 2016 - International Data Corporation (IDC) has completed an in-depth market sizing of the EMEA Big Data infrastructure market focusing on servers, storage, and cloud resources used for Big Data–related activities. These include value creation from merging different data sources, various analytics, log files, and metadata that help identify patterns and generate predictions.
January 13, 2016 - 16.5 billion e-commerce card payments worth $2.1 trillion were made worldwide in 2014 according to a recent study by RBR.
January 12, 2016 - Bloomberg has acquired the technology assets of an Australian company capable of scanning enterprises for inappropriate communications in social media, using pattern matching technology.
January 11, 2016 - Close to two-thirds (63%) of global IT professionals oppose giving governments backdoor access to encrypted information systems, and similar numbers (59%) feel that privacy is being compromised in an effort to implement stronger cybersecurity laws. The survey by global IT and cybersecurity association ISACA of 2,920 members in 121 countries also reveals marked skepticism about the likelihood of organizations sharing data breach information voluntarily as called for by the recently passed U.S. Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015.
