March 7, 2012 - The European Commission is promising to shake up cross-border securities settlement in the EU by cutting settlement timeframes and establishing a common regulatory framework for the region's 30+ central securities depositories.

March 2, 2012 - National Australia Bank is formulating a set of standard service level agreements that may be used by companies worldwide for securing data in public and private cloud applications.

February 24, 2012 - The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has given national securities watchdogs two months to declare their plans for enforcing new rules on scrutinising high frequency trading activities.

February 10, 2012 - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has voted to set up a subcommittee on high frequency trading in a bid to better understand its effects on the market.

February 10, 2012 - The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reacted to the ongoing regulatory probe into potential interest-rate manipulation by firing at least four employees.

January 26, 2012 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a trader in Latvia for conducting a widespread online account intrusion scheme in which he manipulated the prices of more than 100 NYSE and Nasdaq securities and caused more than $2 million in harm to customers of U.S. brokerage firms.

January 19, 2012 - IDC Government Insights announced the availability of a new report, Best Practices: Regional Community Cloud Hubs – The New "Trickle Down" Effect That's Boosting State and Local Computing (Document #GI232470). According to the new report, IDC Government Insights believes a new type of government cloud services, labeled "regional cloud hubs", will significantly change the way state and local governments procure online computing services.