January 8, 2015 - Regulatory experts from Wolters Kluwer Financial Services have identified a list of top compliance issues facing U.S. financial institutions in 2015. Heightened regulatory scrutiny, together with the enactment of major new regulations and pending rule changes, will represent significant challenges of varying impact for financial institutions from an operational, procedural, governance, staffing, and technology standpoint, including:
January 8, 2015 - Safe Banking Systems, a technology enabled company and specialist provider of anti-money laundering and compliance solutions, marked its third year of inclusion in the Chartis 2015 RiskTech100® report by jumping 23 places to rank 67th. Chartis identified Safe Banking Systems as one of the companies with a notable gain.
January 7, 2015 - Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that it has won the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) category in the 2014 Risk Technology rankings. This is the first year that this category was introduced in order to reflect the growing importance and interest in the space amongst risk managers.
January 7, 2015 - At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are preparing to resume research early in 2015 following a major program of maintenance and upgrading to prepare the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to run at almost double the energy.
January 6, 2015 - Retail bank IT investment in 2015 will be focused squarely on driving revenue growth, according to new research from Ovum, the global analyst house. Digital channels will be at the heart of this activity, particularly as the improving economy has meant reducing costs and headcount is no longer a priority. The large majority of investment made in 2015 will be focused on progressing with an omnichannel experience for customers.
January 6, 2015 - International Data Corporation (IDC) announced a new report, IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: IT Strategy and Innovation in the United States (Doc #252532).
January 5, 2015 - NICE Systems (NICE) today launched its Real-Time Fraud Prevention solution, which enables contact centers to detect and prevent fraud in real time using voice biometrics and both speech and desktop analytics.
December 30, 2014 - Infosys today announced that it would expand its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in the Americas through its philanthropic arm, the Infosys foundation, USA. It would focus on making quality computer science education widely and easily accessible across communities in the Americas. The company also announced the appointment of Mrs. Sudha Murty, Mrs. Vandana Sikka and Mr. Sandeep Dadlani as the trustees of Infosys Foundation, USA. The initial outlay for Infosys Foundation, USA, would be USD 5 Million per annum.
