February 24, 2014 - A collection of US state financial regulators has become the latest body to launch an investigation into bitcoin and other virtual currencies. Meanwhile, the boss of troubled exchange Mt. Gox has resigned from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation.
February 24, 2014 - A leading Australia-based renewable energy company, Infigen Energy, has selected MetricStream to provide an integrated solution for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Compliance Management.
February 24, 2014 - Organizations consider public cloud sharing tools as a primary security risk according to a survey of 621 IT professional conducted by Axway (NYSE Euronext: AXW.PA), a market leader in governing the flow of data, and Ponemon Institute.
February 24, 2014 - Thales, leader in information systems and communications security announces F5's support for Thales nShield hardware security modules (HSMs) through F5 Synthesis' High Performance Services Fabric.
February 20, 2014 - The International Compliance Association (ICA) is pleased to announce a brand new qualification: The ICA FICS Accredited Advanced Certificate in Governance, Risk & Compliance designed for those new to compliance.
February 18, 2014 - Fenergo today announced that the firm's Regulatory Onboarding solution has been launched by Scotiabank, Canada's most international bank.
February 18, 2014 - Over 80% of institutional investors expect risk management to play an even greater role in the investment decision process in the future, according to a new study published by BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services, in collaboration with Nobel Prize-winning economist Dr. Harry Markowitz. In addition, over the next five years 73% expect to spend more time on investment risk issues, while 68% expect to spend more time on operational risk issues. Only 25% of respondents, however, had a chief risk officer.
February 19, 2014 - More than half of U.S. organizations that experienced fraud in the last two years reported an increase in the number of occurrences, according to the Global Economic Crime Survey 2014 released today by PwC US, representing a continuing upward trend in the occurrence and detection of economic crime. Forty-five percent of organizations in the U.S. suffered from some type of fraud in the past two years, more than the global average of 37 percent.
