January 22, 2015 - More than 11% of Android banking and finance-related apps contain malware or suspicious binaries, according to research from RiskIQ.

January 21, 2015 - Safe Banking Systems, a technology enabled company and provider of SAFE Advanced Solutions® for anti-money laundering and compliance, today announced that it has been recognized as a Point Solutions provider in the Chartis Financial Crime Risk Management Systems 2014 RiskTech Quadrants®.

January 20, 2015 - Securities compliance experts from Wolters Kluwer Financial Services have published commentary outlining key regulatory trends expected to impact U.S. securities firms in 2015. The outlook considers the regulatory landscape at a time four and a half years since the Dodd-Frank Act was passed into law. Given the context that only about half of the rules have been finalized and we are less than half way to implementation, trends indicate regulation will continue to increase over the coming year and in the near future.

January 20, 2015 - A new global survey of more than 3,400 members of IT association ISACA shows that close to half (46 percent) of respondents expect their organization to face a cyberattack in 2015 and 83 percent believe cyberattacks are one of the top three threats facing organizations today. Yet an alarming 86 percent say there is a global shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals and only 38 percent feel prepared to fend off a sophisticated attack. The 2015 Global Cybersecurity Status Report survey was conducted just one week before US President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, which will discuss a range of actions to reduce cyberthreats and data privacy risks.

January 19, 2015 - An upturn in business volumes and increase in compliance demands is encouraging UK financial firms to raise IT budgets in a bid to reach new customers and shake off competition from new market entrants, according to the latest quarterly survey from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and PwC.

January 16, 2015 - The US and UK are to wage a series of cyber 'war games' against each other to test the resilience of the two country's defences against online criminals, beginning with a mock exercise directed at the banking and finance sector.

January 16, 2015 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted two new sets of rules that will require security-based swap data repositories (SDRs) to register with the SEC and prescribe reporting and public dissemination requirements for security-based swap transaction data.