March 6, 2014 - According to a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) study, the vast majority of CFOs (82 percent) see the value of integrating enterprise-wide data, but only 24 percent think their team is up to the task. This marks a 205 percent increase in the gap between the importance of data and the ability to exploit its value since the question was first asked in 2005, showcasing a critical divide in the skills and capabilities for today's finance teams.

March 6, 2014 - MetricStream, a market-leader in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions announced today the launch of its cloud-based content portal, GRCIntelligence.com, which serves as a one-stop source for GRC content, regulatory feeds, and market intelligence.

March 6, 2014 - Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner Scott O'Malia has slammed his own organisation for spending money on people, rather than technology.

March 6, 2014 - OpenGamma, creator of the first open-source risk management and analytics platform for the financial services industry, today announced that ReMATCH, the ICAP owned CDS portfolio rebalancing and market risk mitigation service, has selected the OpenGamma Platform to provide dynamic, on-demand market risk analytics for single-name CDS.

March 5, 2014 - DataArt, a custom software development partner for the financial services and other industries, today announced it has completed the development of Regulatory Efficiency Gains ("REG")'s digital platform.

March 5, 2014 - Financial services firms are far more likely to fall victim to cybercrime than their counterparts in other industries, according to a survey from PwC.

March 5, 2014 - Misys, a leading provider of software solutions to financial services institutions, has been selected by Blue Sky Group, the sixth largest fiduciary pension fund in the Netherlands, to provide its core portfolio management platform.