July 4, 2014 - Europe's financial institutions should steer clear of virtual currencies such as bitcoin until a regulatory regime is in place, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned.

July 4, 2014 - Barclays has become the first major organisation to receive a new UK government cyber security certification for its digital banking services.

July 3, 2014 - Brazilian criminal gangs have netted $3.75 billion in a micro-transaction fraud that compromises transactions made using the popular Boleto payment method.

July 2, 2014 - Idealinvent, provider of Next Generation banking systems, and Prime Factors, provider of cryptographic data protection platforms, today announced a strategic partnership to introduce the latter's Bank Card Security System (BCSS) and its Card Security and Personalization capabilities into the former's ConnectCore - Card Management offering.

June 30, 2014 - Regulation will be the key driver in the next phase of the rapidly evolving hedge fund industry, according to Part II of the Citi (NYSE:C) Investor Services' 5th Annual Industry Evolution survey.

July 1, 2014 - Confluence, the global leader in investment data management automation, today announces that BlueBay Asset Management, a leading specialist manager of fixed income and alternative investment products, has chosen Confluence's Unity NXT™ regulatory reporting solutions to automate its data reporting processes, both to comply with current regulatory demands and in anticipation of future ones.

July 1, 2014 - To help financial institutions better respond to upcoming regulatory and operational challenges, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services'leading subject matter experts have identified seven key risk management areas that organizations should pay the most attention to in the next 12 months.