January 6, 2016 - How data is stored, analyzed and processed is transforming businesses. According to MapR Technologies' CEO and Co-Founder John Schroeder, the industry is in the midst of the biggest change in enterprise computing in decades. Schroeder sees an acceleration in big data deployments, and has crystallized his view of market trends into these five major predictions for 2016.
January 7, 2015 - More than half of banks and building societies in the UK are leaving their online customer login pages vulnerable because of insecure SSL instances, according to security experts at Xiphos Research.
December 21, 2015 - Just weeks after falling victim to a massive cyber theft of customer assets, JPMorgan sent a fake phishing email to all employees to test their reaction. You can probably guess what happened next.
December 21, 2015 - Technical body EMVCo has released official figures which demonstrate that one in three of all card-present transactions undertaken globally between July 2014 and June 2015 used EMV® chip technology.
December 18, 2015 - The International Compliance Association (ICA) has been working with The Financial Skills Partnership (FSP) and Skills for Justice to review the National Occupational Standards (NOS) in compliance, anti money laundering and countering financial crime.
December 18, 2015 - In 2016 the Internet of Things and wearable technologies will continue to dominate and it's likely robotics and artificial intelligence solutions will go mainstream. These are the key predictions in a new report – 'What's Hot in 2016 – technology trends' published today by Advanced 365 (Advanced) in association with Global Futures & Foresight.
December 16, 2015 - Next year will see banks increasingly explore ways to use insights from regulatory trends to inform boardroom decision making on risk management and strategic business topics. That's according to Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) experts at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services who predict closer integration between risk and finance functions and that banks will focus on formulating strategic, financial and operational responses to regulatory trends and market dynamics.
December 16, 2015 - Following extensive, multi-annual negotiations the European Parliament and European Council have reached an agreement on a new General Data Protection Regulation modernising a legal framework which dates back to the 1990s.