November 1, 2012 - As trading resumed in New York after a two-day Hurricane Sandy-inflicted pause, the effectiveness of Wall Street's back-up plans to deal with disasters was being called into question.

October 26, 2012 - With more than a dozen major bank Web sites targeted in DDoS attacks over the last month, financial institutions need to take steps to ensure they don't become the latest victims, warns the US Financial Services Roundtable's technology unit, Bits.

October 24, 2012 - Investit recently reported that regulatory change programmes would be among the top priorities for 85% of investment managers in 2013. New research published by Investit this week, shows that for 75% of firms the emerging and still unclear regulations are placing strain on the operational risk function.

October 24, 2012 - Data is still a misunderstood and under-leveraged corporate asset. Nearly a quarter of financial services institutions do not understand the positive impact of potential effective data management on P&L.

October 23, 2012 - America's smallest banks should be made exempt from the full Basel III regulatory changes, a leading figure in the industry has recommended.

October 18, 2012 - Financial institutions need to take full control of their vast number of spreadsheets and databases if they want to be fit for the new era of post-crisis risk management, warns leading data management specialist ClusterSeven. If they are not prepared, firms face a growing threat of regulatory censure over weak data management systems.

October 16, 2012 - TD Bank has lost data tapes containing the names, account information and social security numbers of 260,000 US customers. The unencrypted tapes were lost during transit in March, a spokeswoman told Reuters, stressing that there is no evidence that the data has been misused.