October 5, 2015 - Discount brokerage firm Scottrade says that 4.6 million customer contact details may be at risk after the firm received a warning from the FBI that its systems had been hacked between late 2013 and early 2014.

October 2, 2015 - The American Bankers Association, the lobby group that has taken a leading role in lambasting retailers over lax data security, has admitted that email addresses and passwords used to make purchases or register for events through its online shopping cart have been compromised.

October 2, 2015 - In the latest in a series of high profile data breaches, credit referencing agency Experian says hackers accessed its servers and stole the personal details of 15 million prospective T-Mobile customers.

October 2, 2015 - Donald Trump's luxury hotel chain has confirmed that malware may have compromised customer credit and debit card data.

October 1, 2015 - Datactics Ltd, a market leader in data quality and matching software, today announces the launch of DQ Metrics, a powerful data monitoring and measurement application that offers financial institutions the ability to measure their data compliance against evolving regulations and industry standards.

October 1, 2015 - Despite the fact that the majority of Americans still do not have EMV payment cards ahead of today's deadline for a switch from magstripe, an industry taskforce insists that the migration is "on track".

September 30, 2015 - Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, announces today a new quantitative approach for calculating real world algorithmic exposures for advanced risk measures – a powerful and effective approach for portfolios of exotic derivatives.