May 22, 2013 - LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today announced that, together with Reed Elsevier Properties SA, it has acquired the acclaimed publishing brands and businesses of Sheshunoff™ and A.S. Pratt from the Thompson Media Group. Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed.
May 24, 2013 - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined J.P. Morgan International Bank Limited (JPMIB) £3,076,200 for systems and controls failings relating to its provision of retail investment advice and portfolio investment services.
May 24, 2013 - Wolters Kluwer Financial Services today released a new readiness checklist and whitepaper to help investment advisors keep their policies and procedures up-to-date and ensure their ongoing efficancy. In compliance with the 40 Act Rules, investment firms across the industry have adopted a written Code of Ethics and instituted personal trading policies and procedures.
May 21, 2013 - A CGI and Euro Banking Association (EBA)-sponsored payments survey carried out under the auspices of the Financial Services Club has questioned 422 participants from 47 countries and found that 79% of eurozone respondents are not yet ready for the single euro payments area (SEPA) end date of 1 Feb 2014, with 57% still in the planning phase.
May 20, 2013 - Smarsh(R), a leading provider of hosted archiving and compliance solutions for email and electronic communications, announced today at FINRA's 2013 Annual Conference a new partnership with NASDAQ OMX (NDAQ) to offer Smarsh archiving and compliance solutions to corporations, broker-dealers, exchanges and regulators alongside NASDAQ OMX's SMARTS market surveillance and compliance solutions.
May 21, 2013 - Logicalis, the international IT solutions and managed services provider, today announced that it has met a set of PCI DSS compliance standards for its multi-tenanted Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, enabling UK customers to confidently adopt its cloud and data centre services as part of their wider PCI DSS compliance programmes.
May 21, 2013 - Regulation is top of mind for banking executives and is viewed as the primary impediment to growth and traditional bank business models, while the likelihood of mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity within the industry declined, according to a recent survey by KPMG LLP, the audit, tax, and advisory firm.
May 16, 2013 - The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the regulatory and oversight body for Québec's financial sector, has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for potential suppliers to tender for the creation of a new Market Analysis Platform (MAP).
