January 28, 2014 - FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), the world's largest provider of banking and payments technology, continues to lead the way in EMV production and transitions across the United States. Having launched EMV programs for more than 50 financial institutions over the last 12 months, FIS provides implementation and issuance programs for providers looking to upgrade to the EMV standard used across most of the world. FIS also issues EMV-enabled cards in Canada, Aruba, Brazil, Mexico and the U.K.
January 28, 2014 - Art and craft retailer Michaels has been the victim of a cyber attack that may have accessed some customer information, becoming the latest company to be impacted in a spate of attempted data thefts.
January 28, 2014 - The UK technology sector is seeing strong inflows of new work driving the steepest expansion of business activity for almost a decade and the largest improvement in profitability in six years, according to the latest Q42013 KPMG/Markit Tech Monitor UK report.
January 28, 2014 - The recent data breach suffered by major retailer Target has had a significant impact on US consumers, according to a new report.
January 28, 2014 - Innovative start-up fintech firms are working on a range of new technologies that will require major banking institutions to change the way they operate.
January 27, 2014 - Thomson Reuters announced today that it has launched a new suite of capabilities to help financial institutions improve transparency and reporting around financial benchmark submissions and other price sensitive data. These capabilities allow firms to better manage the entire benchmark submissions workflow; from the pre-submission requirements of controlling who in their firm is publishing contributed data, to the post-submission compliance activities of surveillance, audit and reporting.
January 27, 2014 - Kaspersky Lab improves its position and is second-furthest for "completeness of vision" in the "Leaders" portion of the Gartner Magic Quadrant
January 27, 2014 - Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus says that up to 1.1 million customer payment cards were compromised in the recent data breach that hit its instore POS terminals over a four-month period from July to October 2013.