January 21, 2016 - Financial institutions across Asia-Pacific are behind the curve when it comes to being prepared for evolving global tax reporting regulations. That's according to a recent survey by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services and the GRC Institute, which indicates that more than 90% of financial institutions in the region have not started implementing Global Account Tax Compliance Act (GATCA). These firms have no dedicated teams in place and close to 60% have not yet started discussing their strategy internally.
January 21, 2016 - Global IT and cybersecurity association ISACA has launched two free digital tools through its Cybersecurity Nexus (CSX):
January 19, 2016 - Virtusa’s Governance, Risk & Compliance consulting practice (“GRC”) advises top-tier companies across the full spectrum of industry verticals. We assist organizations in maintaining both efficiency and compliance in increasingly complex regulatory environments. Virtusa’s GRC practice deploys industry professionals who are experienced in various areas of Risk and Compliance, to provide a hands-on approach to program management, operational efficiency, remediation and delivery.
January 19, 2016 - Options, the leading managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets, and GoldenSource, the innovator of enterprise data management solutions (EDM), have today announced a partnership to offer a fully managed solution as a joint offering to clients seeking to improve their enterprise data management (EDM) capabilities.
January 18, 2016 - British financial services firms expect IT to be the main area to see an increase in capital spending over the next year as the industry braces itself for the fintech revolution.
January 18, 2016 - Financial Risk Solutions (FRS), a provider of investment administration and compliance oversight software, has announced a range of demand-driven expansion plans, to take effect in January 2016.
January 18, 2016 - With smart watches, fitness trackers and payment wristbands expected to account for one in five mobile payment transactions by 2020 – representing $500 billion a year– it is inevitable that they will become a growing target for cyber-attack, according to WISeKey and Kaspersky Lab.
January 18, 2016 - Up to 7.1 million jobs will be wiped out in 15 major economies during a fourth industrial revolution, as disruptive developments in artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, and genetics and biotechnology come to the fore, says the World Economic Forum.
