January 30, 2014 - EDHEC-Risk Institute welcomes delay of European Parliament vote on the regulation of financial benchmarks and calls for high and uniform standards of transparency to allow investors to make informed decisions and promote integrity, competition and innovation in the indexing industry.

January 29, 2014 - Mid-year anxiety over both Fed tapering and slowing growth in China, plus worries about the impact of the US government shutdown, drove market risk to a peak in the second quarter of 2013, but it was all downhill after that, with levels of risk in most markets ending the year lower than where they started, according to an analysis of 2013 trends in risk by Axioma, Inc., a leading provider of advanced tools for risk management and portfolio construction.

January 22, 2014 - Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the findings of a new survey which shows that although conduct risk has become one of the highest priorities for regulators worldwide, there is still great disparity in how firms are defining conduct risk and similarly how regulators are referring to the concept.

January 22, 2014 - Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced that its integrated resource management (IRM) solution has won the award for "best risk management system of the year" from Risk magazine. Risk is the leading publication for financial risk management and the global derivatives markets.

January 21, 2014 - SAS is ranked as a category leader in the Chartis RiskTech Quadrant® for Solvency II Technology Solutions. The report highlighted insurers using leading robust data management, analytics and reporting platforms like SAS® Risk Management for Insurance to juggle Solvency II demands.

January 21, 2014 - Enterprises that choose to avoid using big data analytics techniques because of the possible dangers, such as security and privacy breaches, may be creating risk of another type, says a new white paper from global nonprofit IT association ISACA. "Generating Value From Big Data Analytics" encourages information technology professionals to look at big data holistically, taking into account the cost of inaction.

January 16, 2014 - A new set of guidelines has been issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision which covers how banks should manage the risks related to money laundering and the financing of terrorism.