January 26, 2015 - Avaloq Sourcing Asia Pacific, a wholly owned subsidiary of Avaloq group, announces the recruitment of Andre Di Prospero as Head of Risk & Compliance and Matthew Thoms as Head of Technology at their Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centre in Singapore.
January 23, 2015 - Britains banks must do more to protect themselves from cyber attacks, says the Bank of England, following an analysis of the perimeter defences and operational resilience of 36 of the nation's top financial service providers.
January 23, 2015 - With only nine months to go until the US EMV migration deadline, more than half of retailers are not ready for the switch, according to a survey from ACI Worldwide.
January 23, 2015 - Imagine Software has received the "Best Real-Time Portfolio, Risk and Regulatory Solutions" award from The Hedge Fund Journal at a ceremonial dinner in London to honor leading firms for the services they provide to the hedge fund industry.
January 22, 2015 - More than 11% of Android banking and finance-related apps contain malware or suspicious binaries, according to research from RiskIQ.
January 21, 2015 - Safe Banking Systems, a technology enabled company and provider of SAFE Advanced Solutions® for anti-money laundering and compliance, today announced that it has been recognized as a Point Solutions provider in the Chartis Financial Crime Risk Management Systems 2014 RiskTech Quadrants®.
January 20, 2015 - Securities compliance experts from Wolters Kluwer Financial Services have published commentary outlining key regulatory trends expected to impact U.S. securities firms in 2015. The outlook considers the regulatory landscape at a time four and a half years since the Dodd-Frank Act was passed into law. Given the context that only about half of the rules have been finalized and we are less than half way to implementation, trends indicate regulation will continue to increase over the coming year and in the near future.
January 20, 2015 - A new global survey of more than 3,400 members of IT association ISACA shows that close to half (46 percent) of respondents expect their organization to face a cyberattack in 2015 and 83 percent believe cyberattacks are one of the top three threats facing organizations today. Yet an alarming 86 percent say there is a global shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals and only 38 percent feel prepared to fend off a sophisticated attack. The 2015 Global Cybersecurity Status Report survey was conducted just one week before US President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, which will discuss a range of actions to reduce cyberthreats and data privacy risks.