March 18, 2013 - In research published today entitled, "Smart Beta 2.0," EDHEC-Risk Institute is seeking to draw the attention of investors to the risks of traditional smart beta equity indices and propose a new approach to smart beta investing to take account of these risks.
March 18, 2013 - CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, has been selected by ZLM Verzekeringen (ZLM Insurances), a multi award-winning Dutch insurance company, to support the firm's Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) compliance programme.
March 15, 2013 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today published a guidance update from its staff to clarify the obligations of mutual funds and other investment companies to seek review of materials posted on their social media sites.
March 13, 2013 - Big data can save big money. A recent McKinsey report found that value gained from data in the US health care sector alone could be more than US $300 billion every year. But traditional tools aren't enough to manage these extremely large amounts of fast-changing information.
March 13, 2013 - Global regulators are considering the possibility of simplifying the incoming Basel III regulations following protestations from several institutions around the world, it has emerged.
March 12, 2013 - US retailer Genesco is suing Visa to recover more than £13 million in penalties it was hit with for a 2010 data breach.
March 12, 2013 - International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published a Big Data and analytics (BDA) maturity model, providing a framework of stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for organizations to effectively advance along the successive stages of BDA competency and maturity toward data-driven decision making for this $100 billion technology and services market.
March 11, 2013 - In the context of the ongoing regulatory debate on financial benchmarks and the recent consultations by the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)/European Banking Authority (EBA), EDHEC-Risk Institute wishes to underline that transparency is both crucial to allowing users to assess the risks, relevance and suitability of indices and the most powerful tool to mitigate conflicts of interests existing across the indexing industry.
