November 5, 2015 - The Partnership for New York City, the city's leading business organization, today announced the launch of the Partnership Innovation Council, a panel of industry experts who will seek to ensure that New York's legal and regulatory environment is keeping pace with the technological revolution that is transforming business and the economy.
November 3, 2015 - Technology industry leaders Amazon, Apple, Google, Intuit and PayPal have formed a coalition to lobby for policy initiatives that will further the development of innovation in the financial services industry.
November 2, 2015 - Major global IT vendors – including leading hardware, systems software, eCommerce, big data, cloud, network, telco and systems integrator companies - have little wisdom, advice or vision to offer their customers and prospects when it comes to block chain technology, according to a survey Searching in Vain for the Block Chain just conducted by enterprise IT specialist consulting firm Lighthouse Partners.
November 4, 2015 - Chicago-based Rival Systems (Rival), a trading software company established earlier this year, announced today the official launch of its enterprise-wide risk management platform, Rival Risk.
October 2, 2015 - On the day that UK police arrested a third person in their investigation into a massive data breach at TalkTalk, another UK telco, Vodafone, admits that 1800 accounts have been plundered by unknown intruders.
October 29, 2015 - New business research* by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International reveals that 33 per cent of financial services don't offer customers a secure channel for all their online payments.
October 28, 2015 - Financial institutions must balance the rigours of prepping for "major exams" – such as the scheduled stress tests overseen by the US Federal Reserve, European Banking Authority and Bank of England – with readiness for a "pop quiz" – meaning any ad-hoc risk scenario regulators, the market or executive management may raise. Financial institutions that want to be fully prepared for all scenarios can turn to the new SAS® Stress Testing solution suite.
October 27, 2015 - A survey by Accenture has found that almost half of the world's biggest banks have no directors with any technology experience on their board.
